Diana Gabaldon Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I may be out of bed, but I'm in no way equipped to conduct hypothetical conversations before I've had a cup of tea.
She hesitated for a long moment, but then nodded quickly, as though afraid she would regret the action if she paused to think about it longer.
To take responsibility for the welfare of others made me feel less victimized by the whims of whatever impossible fate had brought me here,
Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things.
I loved Frank ... I loved him alot. But by that time, Jamie was my heart and the breath of my body. I couldn't leave him. I couldn't.
Reputation depended often on the smallest of actions, the daily decisions made with honor and responsibility, not the huge drama of heroic battles.
Strength of bone and fire of mind, all wrapped around a core of steel-hard purpose that would make him a deadly projectile, once set on any course.
His traitorous, deprived anatomy didn't care a whit that she was a selfish, blackmailing little bitch.
You're real, he whispered. I had thought him pale already. Now all vestiges of color drained from his face.
I am a sassenach, after all," I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. "Aye, mo duinne. But you're my sassenach.
Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master ... and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.
Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach," he said softly. "I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it.
You're the world I have," she murmured, and then her breathing changed, and she took him down with her into safety.
What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously.
"I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.
"I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.
A file of red-coated soldiers came at the quick-march from the other end of the quay, splitting the crowd like vinegar dropped on mayonnaise.
Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way ... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.
Women are never too old to wear pink," Fergus replied firmly. "I have heard les mesdames say so, many times.
I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach." His hand cupped my breast, gently now. "I suppose I find myself lonely without ye.
If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.
So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
There's no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands.
And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?
There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh," he said softly. "The greatest of warriors may be overcome.
He wiped the sweat from his face on his sleeve, squared his shoulders, and strode back into the fray. All there was to do was his duty.
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.
If," I said through my teeth, "you ever raise a hand to me again, James Fraser, I'll cut out your heart and fry it for breakfast!
Exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood,
Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil.
Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.
Christ, was he going to die in public, in a pleasure garden, in the company of a sodomite spy dressed like a rooster?
I waved pleasantly after him, thinking how much I should enjoy sticking a fork into him, when the time came.
The curious alchemy of cookery, that process of making the transfer of life from one being to another palatable.
He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.
Come on!" he said, grunting as he shifted the Chinaman's slippery form for a better grip. "They'll be after us any moment!
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.