Diana Gabaldon Quotes

He tolk both my hands in his, then, and kissed them - the left which still bore the gold ring of my marriage to Frank, and then the right, with his own silver ring..Da mi basia mille, he whispered, sm...

I marched into the shop and bought the vases.

Does it ever stop, Claire? The wanting?

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

I leaned back on my elbows and basked in the warming spring sun. There was a curious peace in this day, a sense of things working quietly in their proper courses, nothing minding the upsets and turmoi...

Sometimes twenty years seemed like an instant, and sometimes it seemed like a very long time indeed.

I estimated the ambient humidity at roughly a thousand percent, but tipped a little of my sweetened coffee into the saucer and blew on it nonetheless.

Oh, I said, very touched. Thank you.

When you took me from the witch trial at Cranesmuir--you said then that you would have died with me, you would have gone to the stake with me, had it come to that!He grasped my hands, fixing me with a...

If I were a horse, I’d let him ride me anywhere.

I assure you, Mother, he said dryly, you are undoubtedly the most interesting woman I’ve ever met. She snorted briefly and gave him a direct look. I suppose that’s why you haven’t yet married, is it?...

Chin—and there it was. I near beshit myself.

Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time, he said callously. Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?Absence, I said, dodging t...

I meant no offense, he added a moment later, in a softer tone. I was surprised. I looked at him directly. I was too tired to be tactful. And a bit jealous, perhaps?

I knew too well that deadness of heart; the sense of sleepwalking through days and lying open-eyed at night, finding no rest, knowing only emptiness that was not peace.

I said I was a virgin, not a monk, he said, kissing me again. If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.

Claire. The name knifed across his heart with a pain that was more racking than anything his body had ever been called on to withstand.

It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach, he said simply.

I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for...

My hands were cold, and I felt slightly sick. What in the name of God was going on? The Governor’s shock at learning that I was Jamie’s wife was now at least partially explained; that one glimpse of u...