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.
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DIANA GABALDON I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an...
DIANA GABALDON (...) When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd h...
DIANA GABALDON Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does ...
DIANA GABALDON My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank G...
DIANA GABALDON Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment.
"Why?" he...
DIANA GABALDON Jaime, you must be half-dead"
He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm ha...
DIANA GABALDON ...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished ...
DIANA GABALDON For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he sai...
DIANA GABALDON Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for...
DIANA GABALDON Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking t...
DIANA GABALDON I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog b...
DIANA GABALDON When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ...
DIANA GABALDON I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. An...
DIANA GABALDON When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word...
DIANA GABALDON Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.
DIANA GABALDON I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. �...
DIANA GABALDON Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow....
DIANA GABALDON I fought back the memory of our wedding night. He was a virgin; his hands trembled when he touched m...
DIANA GABALDON Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
DIANA GABALDON A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
DIANA GABALDON Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d hea...
DIANA GABALDON Let me be enough,
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON Come to bed, a nighean. Nothing hurts when ye love me.” He was right; nothing did.
DIANA GABALDON Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some ...
DIANA GABALDON Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean."
He glanced at the house, then ...
DIANA GABALDON That dog is a wolf, is he not?'
'Aye, well, mostly.'
A small flash of hazel to...
DIANA GABALDON When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened ...
DIANA GABALDON For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard o...
DIANA GABALDON A man’s life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day.
DIANA GABALDON Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what...
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the ...
DIANA GABALDON Does your knee still hurt, Sassenach?” he asked, seeing me rub it. It hadn’t ever quite recovere...
DIANA GABALDON This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air...
DIANA GABALDON You do mean it, then,” I said. “You feel … er … betrothed to her?” “Well, of course ...
DIANA GABALDON And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which...
DIANA GABALDON Men are made in God's image, or so I am told. Likewise that we differ from the animals in having rea...
DIANA GABALDON Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and ...
DIANA GABALDON Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ...
DIANA ROSS The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
DIANA VREELAND I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
DIANA KRALL Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
DIANA VREELAND I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA