You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Jemmy won’t get to go to Disneyland—but he’ll have that. A family that laughs—and millions of little lights in the trees.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“And then later, at the funeral, members of the family, followed by the tenants and then the servants, had come one by… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We started watching 'Doctor Who' as a family because our first daughter was a cranky baby, and she would get up during… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Dorothea is a Grey,” he pointed out. “Any member of her family would pause on the gallows to exchange witty banter with… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“...two Protestants, amazingly bound to Catholics and bemused at the strange tides of fate that had washed over them; two men left… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“In defense of King, country, and family, he would unhesitatingly have sacrificed his virtue to Nessie, had that been required. If it was a question of Olivia marrying a man with syphilis and half the British army being exterminated in battle, versus himself experiencing a "personal interview" with Richard Caswell, though, he rather thought Olivia and the King had best… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share
I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Shock was giving way to a nervous impulse to laugh. Ken his family? Not likely; and how should he explain that he… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“And was there love there? Beyond the limits of flesh and time, was all love possible? Was it necessary? The voice of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I concealed the burned spot in a fold of skirt, thinking how odd it was that everyone regarded women as inherently harmless.… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“the strain of unrelieved company for days on end rather got on my nerves. After a week of visiting, gossip, daily medical… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother's judgment, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking suspicion that a just Providence, seeing the DeVanes so well endowed with physical beauty, had determined that there was no reason to spoil the work… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share
Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, "… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog biscuits and go… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“It was…hard. I didna call out, or let them see I was scairt, but I couldna keep my feet. Halfway through it, I fell into the post, just—just hangin’ from the ropes, ken, wi’ the blood…runnin’ down my legs. They thought for a bit that I’d died—and Da must ha’ thought so, too. They told me he put his hand… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share
I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“We are bound,you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you."One large hand rose to stroke my hair. "D'ye mind the blood vow that I swore ye when we wed?" "Yes,I think so.'Blood of my blood,bone of my bone...'" "I give ye my body, that we may be one," he finished. "Aye, and I have kept… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share
I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“My Da says you’re never drunk, so long as ye can hold on to the floor.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
