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Love Quotes by Diana Gabaldon

54 Love quotes by Diana Gabaldon

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Diana Gabaldon writes that love can feel like a calm sleep and can protect those we care about. She shows love in music, in whispered promises during war, and even in dark moments where words fail. Her lines suggest love is a quiet, powerful force that needs no explanation.

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Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul

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

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If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.

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“Jamie… I only want to be where you are. Nothing else.”

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Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.

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For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

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If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.

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“I could know ye all my life, I think, and always love you. And”

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“It is a gift and a wonder to me, to know that I can please you—that your body can rouse to mine.”

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She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

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I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

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“You cannot compel love," he said finally, "nor summon it at will. Still less," he added ruefully, "can you dismiss it.”

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“But as spring blooms, the birds grow drunk with love and the bushes riot with their songs.”

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Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then…

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And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

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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…

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“For the moment, everything had disappeared: the church, the battle, the screams and shouts and the rumble of limber wheels along the…

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“Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own .…

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“We thought you were dead, you bloody arsehole!” he said, furious. “Both of us! Dead! And we—we—took too much to drink one…

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For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I've been saying, 'It's not my country; I…

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“Help us, O Lord, to remember how often men do wrong through want of thought, rather than from lack of love; and…

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“A man who had never spoken love to me, who had never needed to, for I knew he loved me, as surely…

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“I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to…

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“Sleep, O sleep in the calm of all calm, Sleep, O sleep in the guidance of guidance, Sleep, O sleep in the…

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“Love for a child cannot be free; from the first signs of movement in the womb, a devotion springs up as powerful…

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“And was there love there? Beyond the limits of flesh and time, was all love possible? Was it necessary? The voice of…

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I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of…

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“My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank God. Tall…

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“Once I had thought I was whole -- had seemed to be able to love a man, to bear a child, to…

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“I was sorry that I'd told him, but I had no defenses anymore. I could not lie, even for the best of…

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“I cried then, holding nothing back. For empty years, yearning for the touch of a hand. Hollow years, lying beside a man…

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“He had crossed the room with no notion what he might say or do - he had no knowledge of the language…

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“That dog is a wolf, is he not?' 'Aye, well, mostly.' A small flash of hazel told him not to quibble. 'And…

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“All right," I said, waving the cup away and dabbing moisture very carefully from my lips. "I'm fine." I breathed shallowly, feeling…

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“If ye have to ask yourself if you’re in love, laddie—then ye aren’t,”

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“Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil.”

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Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

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Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

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“That's the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady.”

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“Alive and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us.”

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