Diana Gabaldon Quotes

He went on loving her, she whispered, as much to herself as to anyone else. He didn’t forget her. Of course he didna forget her. She opened her eyes to see Ian’s long face and kind brown eyes six inch...

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

Hello, the house! she

Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified.

Here’s tae us. Wha’s like us? Damned few, she replied in broad Scots, and they’re all deid.

His own eyes were soft and dreamy, cloudy as a trout pool in the rain.

How little you know of women, my love, I said.

How long has it been since you last slept with a woman, if you don’t mind my asking? He didn’t appear to mind. He frowned a little and scratched his chest thoughtfully. Oh … fifteen years? At least th...

How long is some time? Fifteen years, you said? Oh, a good deal longer than that. Isobel— He stopped abruptly, the smile vanishing. He hadn’t mentioned his dead wife before. You never saw her naked? I...

However unknown my future, it would be shared, and the bond between my man and me went much deeper than the flesh. Beyond all this was the one great difference, though—I had chosen to be there.

I am thinking that you're verra beautiful, Sassenach, he said softly. Maybe if one has a taste for gooseflesh on a large scale, I said tartly, stepping out of the tub and reaching for the cup. He gr...

I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which He has placed me.

I can hear. Hear them. It. Don’t you hear? It was a struggle to speak, to form coherent thoughts. The call here was different; not the beehive sound of Craigh na Dun, but a hum like the vibration of t...

I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.

I couldn’t think how long it had been since I had read a novel. And in the daytime! Feeling pleasantly wicked, I sat by the open window in my surgery and resolutely entered a world far from my own.

I cried then, holding nothing back. For empty years, yearning for the touch of a hand. Hollow years, lying beside a man I had betrayed, for whom I had no tenderness. For the terrors and doubts and gri...

I don’t really know, he said. He glanced at me, one eyebrow raised. Does that sound unfeeling? I couldn’t say, I said, a little tartly. Surely you’d know better than I whether you had feelings for her...

I felt adrift, anchorless in a running sea. This is now my home.

I flapped my hand, dismissing the matter of outlawry as a minor consideration, compared to the whole monstrous idea. I had one last try. Does it bother you that I’m not a virgin? He hesitated a moment...

I found Lord John and William in the parlor, both of them a little flushed. Mother Claire. Willie took my hand and gently kissed it. Come and look. Papa has found something he thinks you will like. Co...