Diana Gabaldon Quotes

There must have been some sound that made me look up, but I wasn’t aware of having raised my head. John Grey was standing in the doorway of my room. His neckcloth was missing and his shirt hung limp o...

She had disapproved, audibly, repeatedly, and eventually to my face, of my habit of going about with my head uncovered, it being her opinion that it was unseemly for a woman of my age not to wear eith...

After all, who’s going to look after all the sick folk, if your grannie’s lying about in pieces? F

Mmphm, I said, sounding self-consciously Scottish.

Ah, said MacLeod, satisfaction spreading itself across his weathered features. It is so, then, that you know all the songs of the Highlands and the Isles? Not all, said Roger, smiling. But many—and I...

There were some chains you wore because you wanted to.

There were moments, of course. Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark...

Grey stood up as they came in, Azeel hovering protectively behind Rodrigo. The young man stopped, taking a deep breath before bowing deeply to the gentlemen. Your…servant. Sah, he said to Grey, and th...

There was plenty of the infusion left. I poured another cup and held it out to Lord John. Surprised, he sat upright and took it from me. And now that you’ve come, and seen him—do you still have feelin...

More than most men, he valued his name-I only hoped that given time, it would once more have value.

When we met, that night aboard the Porpoise—I’m glad you didn’t know who I was. I … liked you. Then.

Grey spoke with more heat than filial respect, but panic made him edgy.

There was my acquaintance from the Porpoise; Lord John’s blond hair was hidden under a formal wig tonight, but I recognized the fine, clear features and slight, muscular body at once. He stood a littl...

There was another reason. The main one. Reason? I said stupidly. Why I married you. Which was? I don’t know what I expected him to say, perhaps some further revelation of his family’s contorted affa...

There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more than the niff of ancient squalor and an absence of drains.

There was a rustle near his ear, and he turned his head to see the crow. It stood on the grass a foot away, a blotch of wind-ruffled black feathers, regarding him with a bead-bright eye. Deciding that...

There are only two people in this world to whom I would never lie, Sassenach, he said softly. Ye’re one of them. And I’m the other.

Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as...

Never,he whispered to me, face only inches from mine. Never, I said, and turned my head, closing my eyes to escape the intensity of his gaze. A gentle, inexorable pressure turned me back to face him,...

Grey moved a knight and sat back, rubbing the back of his neck, smiling to himself at the effect of his move. He was a good-looking man; slight and fine-boned, but with a strong, clear-cut face and a...