Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn’t know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost.

Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't suff...

I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone’s weakness? Can I not have my own?

With no Law to regulate their Behavior save Self-interest, though, plainly there is Nothing to prevent an irregular Militia from becoming more of a Threat to the Citizenry than the Dangers from which...

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

What is it, love? I whispered. Jamie, I do love you.I know it, he said quietly. I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye whi...

I suppose you must feel some bitterness against the historians, Roger ventured. All the writers who got it wrong--made him out to be a hero. I mean, you can't go anywhere in the Highlands without seei...

Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here of a harsh peace that would transcend bodily discomfort, a healin...

That’s not right, Willie was saying, turning to look up at him. You cast with the left hand. I saw you. Aye, but I’m cack-handed, my lord. Most men would cast with the right. Cack-handed? Willie’s mou...

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I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, th...

Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed.That's the first law of thermodynamics, I said, wiping my nose.No, he said. That's faith.

Comment sont vos selles, grandpere? - Germain to Jamie.

Did you regret it? I asked. Not taking him up on his offer, I mean? Ten thousand times, at the very least, he assured me, breaking into a rueful grin. At the same time … refusing him was one of the fe...

Strength of bone and fire of mind, all wrapped around a core of steel-hard purpose that would make him a deadly projectile, once set on any course.

I write in bits and pieces, and glue them together, like a jigsaw puzzle.

Who needed the relief of occasional bad language more than a mother of small children? Maybe

We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/? Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his livi...

What I said to ye, before … that I kent ye loved me—

Then let amourous kisses dwellOn our lips, begin and tellA Thousand and a Hundred scoreA Hundred and a Thousand more