Diana Gabaldon quote: "No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object."

I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to giv...
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Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.
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Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.
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For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary
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I've had no fewer than three young women on separate occasions come up to me at book signings an...
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I have never seen a script that hasn't gone through at least eight different iterations before t...
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Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-le...
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Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after...
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Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean so...
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I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than...
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Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an e...
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Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Ja...
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Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly ho...
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We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /televisio...
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Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.
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Three of the principal cast members of 'Outlander' have come out publically for 'Yes'...
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Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomica...
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From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged...
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It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given t...
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Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.
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There are lines of geomagnetic force running through the Earth's crust, and most of the time, th...
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If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally d...
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What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that ...
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All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing...
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People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and f...
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The greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help.
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And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and...
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All the names I’ve called you through the years—my chick, my pumpkin, precious dove, darling, sw...
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The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
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Orkney has the kind of landscape that sort of lends itself to a relationship with the people. I thin...
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James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
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So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?"
"All the time," she s...
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If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it&...
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No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind ...
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I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, t...
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You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.
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Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.
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Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault,...
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There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna g...
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Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.
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I had one last try.
"Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before an...
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I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of t...
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It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that dro...
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I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance...
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Where are you going?" I asked, as Frank swung his feet off the bed.

"I'd hate the dear ol...
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It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.
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He was overcome with a sudden sense of premonition, though he did not believe in premonition. He fel...
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Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.
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You’re mine, mo duinne,” he said softly, pressing himself into my depths. “Mine alone, now and...
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We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for...
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Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime
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He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to t...
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There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate ...
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Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soun...
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The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on ...
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I meant it, Claire,' he said quietly. 'My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, ...
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Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
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That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess....
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Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
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I want to hold you hard to me and kiss you, and never let you go. I want to take you to my bed and u...
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Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some ...
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But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look a...
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And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for yo...
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I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began t...
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I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye cons...
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A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded.

No, I thought. I won't...
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Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels...
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You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the prote...
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When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...
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And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for...
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Because I wanted you." He turned from the window to face me. "More than I ever wanted anything in my...
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When' Voyager', the third book of the series, hit the 'New York Times' bestseller li...
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Jaime," I said softly, "are you happy about it? About the baby?" Outlawed in Scotland, barred from h...
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Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
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While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever t...
DIANA GABALDON

Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind,...
DIANA GABALDON

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.
DIANA GABALDON

Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?"

Aroused by my voice, ...
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...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually i...
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Then let amourous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A Thousand and a Hundred score<...
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All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I lo...
DIANA GABALDON

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. T...
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I have two brain cells left, and one of them is busy reminding me to buy toilet paper.
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Look, pick it up, open it anywhere and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you ...
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It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious...
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I particularly like the bookshops at National Parks and battlefields; they often have very unusual a...
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My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylight...
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Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Engl...
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You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything...
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I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'...
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But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupp...
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I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye lik...
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You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your reve...
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For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live withou...
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Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finis...
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For I had come back, and I dreamed once more in the cool air of the Highlands. And the voice of my d...
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Do you really think we'll ever--"

"I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. ...
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You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
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We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.
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Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed...
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When you took me from the witch trial at Cranesmuir--you said then that you would have died with me,...
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Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.
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I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can...
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Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thi...
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Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.
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If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for te...
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You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go
DIANA GABALDON

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for m...
DIANA GABALDON

I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped m...
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I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgator...
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What's that you're doing, Sassenach?"

"Making out little Gizmo's birth certificate--so fa...
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Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna...
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All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
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Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without ...
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Blessed are those who eat greens, for they shall keep their teeth. Blessed are those who wash their ...
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For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn ret...
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It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped i...
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The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the fee...
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Jamie felt a strong desire to go across and see what the open books were, to go to the shelves and r...
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'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'
DIANA GABALDON

If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other res...
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I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's n...
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There's not a lot of pictorial evidence from the Highlands, because only the very wealthy had th...
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As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal'...
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Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the jo...
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I drew a deep breath, trying to think of something to say, then pulled a handkerchief from my pocket...
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While you certainly will recognize 'Outlander' if you've been reading the books, there&#...
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What is it about ye, Sassenach, I wonder?” he said conversationally, eyes still fixed on Myers. DIANA GABALDON

I thought he said you weren’t drunk if you could find your arse with both hands.”

He ...
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Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down,
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I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what...
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Some people are just mad about the historical aspects; they feel as though they're living in a diffe...
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All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that,
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[Claire travels in time. And while she and Jamie do fall in love, their story is not so much the stu...
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Nobody had ever told me how to do these things, ... I didn't want anyone giving me advice until I ha...
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My husband gets up at around 5.30 A.M., so I'll tuck him in around 9.30 P.M. or 10 P.M., and the...
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There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the m...
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How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were ...
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My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one ...
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You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had,...
DIANA GABALDON

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginn...
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Roger speaking to Brianna:
It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."
You do rem...
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I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...
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To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.
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When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...
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What . . . fellow?” The wind was cool, but I could see sweat trickling down the back of Jamie’s ...
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The position of sun and moon on the Feast of Beltane" is one, with a list if two hundred paired figu...
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For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “...
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If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband ...
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And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a dam...
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One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the wor...
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Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit c...
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I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an...
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(...) When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd h...
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Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does ...
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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...
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Jaime, you must be half-dead"

He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm ha...
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...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished ...
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For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he sai...
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Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for...
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Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking t...
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I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog b...
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When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ...
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I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. An...
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When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word...
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Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.
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I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. �...
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Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow....
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I fought back the memory of our wedding night. He was a virgin; his hands trembled when he touched m...
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Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
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A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
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Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d hea...
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Let me be enough,
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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.
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Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some ...
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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...
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When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened ...
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For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard o...
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A man’s life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day.
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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 ...
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Does your knee still hurt, Sassenach?” he asked, seeing me rub it. It hadn’t ever quite recovere...
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This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air...
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You do mean it, then,” I said. “You feel … er … betrothed to her?” “Well, of course ...
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And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which...
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Men are made in God's image, or so I am told. Likewise that we differ from the animals in having rea...
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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

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.

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No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.

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