Diana Gabaldon Quotes

You can take the Governor’s pinnace; that’s small, but it’s seaworthy. Grey fumbled through the drawer of his desk. I’ll write an order for the dockers to hand it over to you. Aye, we’ll need the boat...

You don't have any hair at all at the tops of your thighs, I said, admiring the smooth white skin there. Why is that, do you think? The cow licked it off the last time she milked me, he said between...

You don’t mind, if he … takes other lovers? Or he you, come to that?

You first. No, you. Why? I'm afraid. Of what, my Sassenach? The darkness was rolling in over the fields, filling the land and rising up to meet the night. The light of the new crescent moon marked the...

You know Mountgerald, the big house at the end of the High Street? There’s a ghost there, a workman on the house who was killed as a sacrifice for the foundation. In the eighteenth century sometime; t...

You learn it when you become a doctor. Not in school—that isn’t where you learn, in any case—but when you lay your hands on people and presume to heal them. There are so many there, beyond your reach....

You may have it, he said. His voice was very low, but he met my eyes straight on. All of it. Anything that was ever done to me. If ye wish it, if it helps ye, I will live it through again.

You must, I murmured to myself, and then my knees buckled. Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assume...

You want me to attend your hanging?His tone must have contained some of the incredulity he felt, for the captain gave him an impatient look.I’d have sent an engraved invitation, had I time, he said.

You'll lie wi' me now, he said quietly. And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.

You're mine, mo duinne...Mine alone, now and forever...Aye, I mean to use ye hard, my Sassenach...I want to own you, to posses you, body and soul. pge 319

You, of all people, must appreciate the force of the Hieland charge!Jamie looked up at that, and regarded MacDonald for a long moment before replying.Aye, well. Ye were behind the cannon at Culloden,...

Your aunt’s a handsome woman, Fraser, but she could freeze the ballocks off the King o’ Japan, and she wanted to.

Your face is my heart, Sassenach,’ he said softly, ‘and love of you is my soul. But

You’ve got a big willy, Uncle John, Adam observed. About the usual for a grown man, I think. Though I believe it’s given fairly general satisfaction.

[Jamie] shook his head, looking stunned. I canna tell whether ye mean to compliment my virility, Sassenach, or insult my morals, but I dinna care much for either suggestion. Murtagh told me women were...

A bit self-conscious. I used to wear mine long as well. It’s short now because the monks had to shave the back of my head and it’s had but a few months to grow again. He bent forward at the waist, inv...

Accept the notion of one’s own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.

And if she wasn’t precisely pretty, she had a force of character that is often more attractive than simple beauty.

Astutely observes that a Man’s sense of