Diana Gabaldon Quotes

The men’s attention had shifted to a young man crouched on a stool in the corner. He had barely looked up through my appearance and interrogation, but kept his head bent, hand clutching the opposite s...

The most important thing I've learned about women, Sassenach, is which one to choose.

The night was cold, and very quiet, as though we were the only two souls in the world.

The only thing you can do—the only thing—is to try for the one who’s in front of you. Act as though this one patient is the only person in the world—because to do otherwise is to lose that one, too. O...

The overseer wouldna speak to me of Ian, but he told me other things that would curl your hair, if it wasna already curled up like sheep's wool. He glanced at me, and a half-smile lit his face, inspit...

The phrase Blessed are those who have not seen but have believed floated through his head. It was maybe not the believing that was the blessing; it was the not having to look. Seeing, sometimes, was b...

The shadows of the tombstones in the graveyard stretched out long and violet, and the sound of the flies buzzed in my ears, louder than the ringing of the shots that still came—were coming closer—to t...

The tooth had belonged to a gentleman named Murphy from Ellis Ward, the one we lived in. I say had belonged because I had the badly broken and infected bicuspid out of Mr. Murphy’s head before he coul...

The wind stirred the drying leaves of wild grapevines with a papery rustle behind me, and in the distance a murder of crows passed, squabbling in shrill cries.

Then I laid my head upon his chest and gave my dreams up to his keeping.

Then kiss me, Claire, he whispered, And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

Then open your legs for me, there’s a good lass no, a bit wider, aye? He

There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give me. But what I would ask of ye---when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll pr...

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resources, ignoring the cost until the struggle is over. Women find thi...

There is no more perfect stillness than the solitude in the heart of a snowstorm.

There was nothing frightening about the dead man; there never is. No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying; once gone, wha...

There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one...single declaration of intent, we stepped across the threshold of war.

There’s intelligence, Quarry said slowly. And then there are other things. But perhaps you’re too young to have seen hate and despair at close range. There’s been a deal of it in Scotland, these last...

These were people like that. The ones that cared so terribly much - enough to risk everything, enough to change and do things. Most people aren't like that, you know. It isn't that they don't care, bu...

These were people like that. The ones who cared so terribly much—enough to risk everything, enough to change and do things. Most people aren’t like that, you know. It isn’t that they don’t care, but t...