Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I felt sick when I thought of the end—but I really wanted to remember how. How it felt, and how I did it, so maybe I can do it again, with Roger.

I glanced upward once, to see Brianna glowing, still smiling from ear to ear. Jamie was behind her, also smiling, his cheeks wet with tears. He said something to her in husky Gaelic, and brushing the...

I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

I have lived through a fucking world war, I said, my voice low and venomous. I have lost a child. I have lost two husbands. I have starved with an army, been beaten and wounded, been patronized, betra...

I knelt at Ellen's feet, as I kneel now by yours, And I swore to her by the name o' the threefold God, that I would follow ye always, to do your bidding, and guard your back, when ye became a man grow...

I knew an old lady in the Highlands once, who said the lines in your hand don’t predict your life; they reflect it.

I love you, he murmured. Oh, Bree, I do love you. She didn’t answer, but a hand floated up from the dark and lay along his cheek, gentle as a tendril of seaweed. She kept it there while he took her, l...

I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I don't know how long we sat there on the dusty floor, crying in each others arms with the longing...

I told you I had feelings for my wife, he said softly. I did. Affection. Familiarity. Loyalty. We had known each other all her life; our fathers had been friends; I had known her brother. She might we...

I used to think of you, when ye were small, Jamie was saying to Bree, his voice very soft. When I lived in the cave; I would imagine that I held ye in my arms, a wee babe. I would hold ye so, against...

I was convinced by now that his feelings for Laoghaire were only those of a chivalrous friendship, but I didn’t know what he might do if he knew that his uncle had seduced the girl and got her with ch...

I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that he could cut the rope. He quit grappling, and clutched me so har...

I will find you, he whispered in my ear. I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you--then that is my punishment,which I have earned for my crimes. For I...

Ian, your Latin would disgrace a dog! And as for the rest, ye havena got enough understanding of Greek to tell the difference between water and wine! If they’re drinkin’ it, it’s not water,

If God makes man in His image, we all return the favor.

If either of them stops shouting long enough to hear the other, they'll be hurting each other's feelings.

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth, his adoptive father had told him once. You may not know what it is, mind, he’d added with a smile. Bu...

If needs must, she could do those things for herself-or find another man. And yet...she needed him-would mourn his loss if it came. Perhaps forever. In his present vulnerable mood, that knowledge seem...

If thee thinks the spirit of God is necessarily logical, thee know Him better than I do.

If ye were no longer there—or somewhere— he said very softly, then the sun would no longer come up or go down. He lifted my hand and kissed it, very gently. He laid it, closed around my ring, upon my...