Diana Gabaldon Quotes

It’s a rare plant, he said, touching the sprig in my open hand. Flowers, fruit and leaves all together at the one time. The white flowers are for honor, and red fruit for courage—and the green leaves...

It’s two hundred year, in the Highland tales—when folk fall asleep on fairy duns and end up dancing all night wi’ the Auld Folk; it’s usually two hundred year later when they come back to their own pl...

I—yes. All right.

I’ll try verra hard, John. The Governor sat down, wearily. There were deep circles under his eyes, and his impeccable linen was wilted; obviously he had not changed his clothes from the day before. Al...

I’m a man, Sassenach, he said, very softly. If I thought there was a choice … then I maybe couldna do it. Ye dinna need to be so brave about things if ye ken ye canna help it, aye? He looked at me the...

I’m not sure that religion was constructed with time travelers in mind. Buck’s brows rose at that. Constructed? he echoed, surprised. Who builds God?

I’m sorry; I had meant to offer you my condolences on the loss of your wife, I said, rather formally. He looked surprised for a moment, then bowed his head in acknowledgment, matching my formality. It...

James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.

Jamie stood quite still, feeling his heart beat, watching. It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recal...

Jamie was a much a sponge as his grandson, I reflected, watching him rootle about, completely naked and totally unconcerned about it. He took in everything, and seemed able to deal with whatever came...

Jamie, who had insisted on walking most of the way to spare the horse, was a disreputable sight indeed, hose stained to the knees with reddish dust, spare shirt torn by brambles and a week’s growth of...

Jamie, I panted. He pushed his kilt out of the way and pressed my hand against him. Bloody Christ, I said, impressed despite myself. My sense of propriety slipped another notch. Fighting gives ye a...

Jamie’s back was turned to me, but Lord John faced the hallway; he could have seen me easily, had he looked. He wasn’t looking toward the hallway, though. He was staring at Jamie, and on his face was...

Je t’aime, it said: I love you. Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, pas du tout: A little, a lot, passionately—not at all.

Let the dead bury the dead, Sassenach, he said softly. The past is gone—the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

Lord that she might be safe. She and my children.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

Mmphm, I said, sounding self-consciously Scottish.

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

My father told me never to take advantage of a woman who was the worse for drink, he said. He had stopped squirming, but now started again, slower, as though he couldn’t help himself. I’m not worse, I...