The position of sun and moon on the Feast of Beltane" is one, with a list if two hundred paired figures laid out beneath. Similar tables existed for Hogmanay and Midsummer's Day, and Samhainn, the Feast of All Hallows. The ancient feasts of fire and sun, and Beltane's sun would rise tomorrow.


Diana Gabaldon

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James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
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You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.
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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.
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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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Do you really think we'll ever--"

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You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
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All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
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DIANA GABALDON
How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were ...
DIANA GABALDON
My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one ...
DIANA GABALDON
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...
DIANA GABALDON
Roger speaking to Brianna:
It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."
You do rem...
DIANA GABALDON
I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...
DIANA GABALDON
To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.
DIANA GABALDON
When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...
DIANA GABALDON
What . . . fellow?” The wind was cool, but I could see sweat trickling down the back of Jamie’s ...
DIANA GABALDON
For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “...
DIANA GABALDON
If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband ...
DIANA GABALDON
And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a dam...
DIANA GABALDON
One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the wor...
DIANA GABALDON
Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit c...
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