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We will marry each other.
— Diana Gabaldon
Not that my watching out was likely to do a lot of good, I thought; every second man on the dock looked like an assassin to me.
— Diana Gabaldon
That is what God is for. Worry doesna help - prayer does. Sometimes,
— Diana Gabaldon
Our lovemaking was always risk and promise-for if he held my life in his hands when he lay with me, I held his soul, and knew it.
— Diana Gabaldon
But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality.
— Diana Gabaldon
Who you jiving, L.J.? I heard Joe Abernathy's voice say, derisive and affectionate. I
— Diana Gabaldon
Here and there, a form stirred feebly, victim of war's sorcery, struggling against the enchantment of death.
— Diana Gabaldon
newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and
— Diana Gabaldon
Good morning, Sassenach,
— Diana Gabaldon
The Devil you ken is better than the Devil you don't.
— Diana Gabaldon
Do you have any idea how mortifying it is to have your own mother standing up in front of everybody, drawing pictures of penises?
— Diana Gabaldon
This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with dreams and mystery.
— Diana Gabaldon
Met with you." "Captain Randall said you were stealing cattle,
— Diana Gabaldon
Arisaid. A night breeze brushed a strand of hair across my face.
— Diana Gabaldon
sorrow and despair. All too many
— Diana Gabaldon
Gave me terrible cramps, and I had wind for days.
— Diana Gabaldon
You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
— Diana Gabaldon
Fighting was an exhausting business, and so was fear.
— Diana Gabaldon
Yes. It doesn't matter what happens; no matter where a child goes - how far or how long. Even if it's forever. You never lose them. You can't.
— Diana Gabaldon
Massive edifice, with its impenetrable walls, its monumental gate, and its red-coated guards, I began to have doubts. What
— Diana Gabaldon
You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.
— Diana Gabaldon
I like ye fat, Sassenach," he said softly. "Fat and juicy as a plump wee hen. I like it fine.
— Diana Gabaldon
TWO DOWN," Roger whispered.
— Diana Gabaldon
breeches and a rough smock
— Diana Gabaldon
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot - but not twice.
— Diana Gabaldon
Aye, verra good. Now then, if ye'll just put your hands above your head and seize the bedstead -
— Diana Gabaldon
Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids
— Diana Gabaldon
I found the rooted silence, rushing stream, and rustling leaves balm to the spirit.
— Diana Gabaldon
You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.
— Diana Gabaldon
Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.
— Diana Gabaldon
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.
— Diana Gabaldon
Is it wrong, Hector? he thought. That I should love a man who might have killed you?
— Diana Gabaldon
day's work, I drifted into sleep at once, soothed
— Diana Gabaldon
I asked. I was quiet then, letting him come to terms with it.
— Diana Gabaldon
I could see the water purling away from keeled scales that ran in a crest down the sinuous neck.
— Diana Gabaldon
Always, always, I had had to balance compassion with wisdom, love with judgment, humanity with ruthlessness.
— Diana Gabaldon
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!
— Diana Gabaldon
I felt at once horribly vulnerable and yet completely safe.
— Diana Gabaldon
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.
— Diana Gabaldon
Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations.
— Diana Gabaldon
It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.
— Diana Gabaldon
of a musket ball embedded in his
— Diana Gabaldon
I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.
— Diana Gabaldon
Exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood,
— Diana Gabaldon
He radiated well-being like a potful of stew.
— Diana Gabaldon
Jamie ... I only want to be where you are. Nothing else.
— Diana Gabaldon
I have been in perturbation of mind for days, debating whether I shall write it, and now, having written, whether to send it.
— Diana Gabaldon
Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!" -Claire
— Diana Gabaldon
Go down," she said, "and tell them the MacKenzies are here.
— Diana Gabaldon
Real danger had its own taste, vivid as lemon juice, by contrast with the weak lemonade of imagination.
— Diana Gabaldon
Not Duncan, but Da's down there
— Diana Gabaldon
Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.
— Diana Gabaldon
Ute McGillivray looked like a Valkyrie on a starchy diet;
— Diana Gabaldon
I loved Frank," I said quietly, not looking at Bree. "I loved him a lot. But by that time, Jamie was my heart and the breath of my body.
— Diana Gabaldon
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.
— Diana Gabaldon
If it was a sin for you to choose me ... then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.
— Diana Gabaldon
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.
— Diana Gabaldon
Women are never too old to wear pink," Fergus replied firmly. "I have heard les mesdames say so, many times.
— Diana Gabaldon
I waved pleasantly after him, thinking how much I should enjoy sticking a fork into him, when the time came.
— Diana Gabaldon
head of the gangplank, she would drop the goat
— Diana Gabaldon
Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.
— Diana Gabaldon
My God, he thought, I'm going to die before I've been born.
— Diana Gabaldon
I'll be setting off just after the Angelus bell- at noon, I mean - should that suit your honors.
— Diana Gabaldon
intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself.
— Diana Gabaldon
got the disks from.
— Diana Gabaldon
You're the world I have," she murmured, and then her breathing changed, and she took him down with her into safety.
— Diana Gabaldon
his weight pinning me to the bed.
— Diana Gabaldon
You didn't say there was a stone circle, I said. I felt faint, and not only from the heat and damp.
— Diana Gabaldon
God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!
— Diana Gabaldon
Well, ye're kind, too," he said, considering. "Verra kind. Though ye are inclined to do it on your own terms. Not that that's bad, mind," he added,
— Diana Gabaldon
Could it be possible that he really did have enough imagination to be able to grasp the truth?
— Diana Gabaldon
Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.
— Diana Gabaldon
I was older, heavier, and completely berserk.
— Diana Gabaldon
Chin - and there it was. I near beshit myself.
— Diana Gabaldon
we might as well be afloat as earthbound, the heave and fall beneath me the rise of planking, and the sound of the pines the wind in our sails.
— Diana Gabaldon
That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl
— Diana Gabaldon
Sassenach," he said against my shoulder, a moment later. "Mm?" "Who in God's name is John Wayne?" "You are," I said. "Go to sleep.
— Diana Gabaldon
Though I could wish your own limits went a bit further.
— Diana Gabaldon
Come on!" he said, grunting as he shifted the Chinaman's slippery form for a better grip. "They'll be after us any moment!
— Diana Gabaldon
Means of dealing with the Three Furies before they drove her crazy or assassinated each other with rolling pin or knitting needle.
— Diana Gabaldon
All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.
— Diana Gabaldon
I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!
— Diana Gabaldon
left me studying the birds, with the assurance that he would shortly
— Diana Gabaldon
Then ye live with it, laddie," he said softly. "That's all.
— Diana Gabaldon
