I hated 'The Lovely Bones'. I thought her vision of Heaven was amazingly uninspired and very depressing. The book was just tedious. — Diana Gabaldon Book Copy Share Image
“Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“and if she wasn’t precisely pretty, she had a force of character that is often more attractive than simple beauty.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.” — Diana Gabaldon Books Copy Share Image
And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil. — Diana Gabaldon Devil Copy Share Image
All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. — Diana Gabaldon Library Copy Share Image
“intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself.” — Diana Gabaldon Communication Copy Share Image
“I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain… — Diana Gabaldon Clock Copy Share Image
“Jamie shook his head at me admiringly. “And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my… — Diana Gabaldon Body Copy Share Image
I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I… — Diana Gabaldon Bears Copy Share Image
He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of pictorial evidence from the Highlands, because only the very wealthy had their portraits painted - but there… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Soeur Emmanuelle?” she said very softly, and gently, slowly, laid her hands on her mother’s shoulders, fragile under the white cloth. She… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Did that mean she had not cared deeply for any of her husbands? I wondered. Or only that she was a woman… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Careful!” I said. “Don’t twist like that, or your dressing will come off! What are you trying to do?” “Get my plaid… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I wish you the best of luck,” Grey said politely. “And I do hope that the gentleman Tom saw in the custody… — Diana Gabaldon Wish you the best Copy Share Image
“When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings;… — Diana Gabaldon Childlike wonder Copy Share Image
The overseer wouldna speak to me of Ian, but he told me other things that would curl your hair, if it wasna… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“You learn it when you become a doctor. Not in school—that isn’t where you learn, in any case—but when you lay your… — Diana Gabaldon Doctor Copy Share Image
You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open,… — Diana Gabaldon Book Copy Share Image
“There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resources,… — Diana Gabaldon Adversity Copy Share Image
I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no,"… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?” — Diana Gabaldon Conscience Copy Share Image
“Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.” — Diana Gabaldon Misfortune Copy Share Image
“means of dealing with the Three Furies before they drove her crazy or assassinated each other with rolling pin or knitting needle. ” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“And you know bloody well that you mostly cant help them anyway; they've got to do it--or not--themselves.” — Diana Gabaldon Help Copy Share Image
“Our lovemaking was always risk and promise-for if he held my life in his hands when he lay with me, I held… — Diana Gabaldon Life Copy Share Image
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. — Diana Gabaldon Book Copy Share Image
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“a marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it” — Diana Gabaldon Life Copy Share Image
“Ye werena the first lass I kissed,” he said softly. “But I swear you’ll be the last.” And he bent his head… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“the wispy clouds of the morning had been knitting themselves up into a low sky the color of dirty wool” — Diana Gabaldon Flower Copy Share Image
“That’s simple. You reason with them, and when you’re through, I’ll take them out and thrash them.” — Diana Gabaldon Reason Copy Share Image
“Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil.” — Diana Gabaldon Hell Copy Share Image
The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict. — Diana Gabaldon Books Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.” — Diana Gabaldon Highlander Copy Share Image
“exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood,” — Diana Gabaldon Dangers Copy Share Image
