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Life Quotes by Diana Gabaldon

41 Life quotes by Diana Gabaldon

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Diana Gabaldon describes moments when time seems to pause, a perfect point of stillness. She believes a marriage is built not by ceremony but by living together each day. She also notes that love can outlast life, turning even a final breath into a lasting memory.

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And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?

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Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

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“What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi' a fish whilst I was fighting for my life?”

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“Time makes very little difference to the basic realities of life”

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

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“a marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it”

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“But to return to thy question, we consider our life here on earth to be a sacrament, lived in the light of…

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“She pulled my hair," he said reflectively. "Took a clump of it out by the roots. I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever…

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“Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point,…

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There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though…

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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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“Thy life’s journey lies along its own path, Ian,” she said, “and I cannot share thy journey—but I can walk beside thee.…

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“Once a man has lived under arms, I suspect he is marked for life.In fact I have heard it remarked that old…

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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 have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are…

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“...two Protestants, amazingly bound to Catholics and bemused at the strange tides of fate that had washed over them; two men left…

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But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations…

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“There is an oath upon her,” he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though…

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“Then kiss me, Claire,” he whispered. “And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.” I…

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“You should know, Bree--I don't regret it. In spite of everything, I don't regret it. You'll know something now, of how lonely…

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“Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And like him, perhaps…

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“There was another reason. The main one.” “Reason?” I said stupidly. "Why I married you.” "Which was?” I don’t know what I…

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“Thy life's journey lies along its own path, Ian," she said, "and I cannot share thy journey - but I can walk…

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It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart…

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“Was my future any more certain than hers? And did I not depend for my life upon a man bound to me—at…

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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 of…

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Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In…

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“Because I wanted you." He turned from the window to face me. "More than I ever wanted anything in my life," he…

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There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is…

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“There is nothing more delightful in life than a feather bed and an open fire—except a feather bed with a warm and…

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Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor…

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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'll take up…

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With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had…

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“Pointless to spend too much time in planning, anyway, given the propensity of life to make sudden left-hand turns without warning.”

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“One of the happiest days of my life was when my mother wrote a note to the public librarians saying 'Let her…

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“Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional…

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The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within…

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“Our lovemaking was always risk and promise-for if he held my life in his hands when he lay with me, I held…

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“It gave him the same odd sense of dislocation, though; that sense of losing some valuable part of himself that could not…

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But we are here, all of us. And we're here because I love you, more than the life that was mine. Because…

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