“It was like being caught in a meat grinder; a brief moment of total chaos, punctuated by random hard blows to the… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I love you, a nighean donn. I have loved ye from the moment I saw ye, I will love ye ’til time… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I've never been willing to commit to more than one at a time, because I just don't know - I don't plan… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“But when I lay wi’ Emily—from the first time. I knew. Kent who I was again.” He looked up at her then,… — Diana Gabaldon 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 Copy Share Image
“This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Orkney has the kind of landscape that sort of lends itself to a relationship with the people. I think that relationship is… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomical observance. For example, some of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly, "so long… — 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… — Diana Gabaldon 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
“Don't move, Sassenach," Jamie's voice came softly, next to me. "Just for a moment, mo duinne--be still." I obligingly froze, until he… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Sorcha,” he whispered, and realized that he had called her so a moment before. Now, that was odd; no wonder she had… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Fraser stood quite still for a moment, breathing slowly and regarding Woodbine as a tiger might regard a hedgehog: yes, he could… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“For a moment, half blinded by dirt, I couldn’t see Jamie at all. Then I spotted him. He was under the bear,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn’t know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment? — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Some time later, long after 'Voyager' was published, I came across the Dunbonnet in another reference, and it gave an expanded version,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Pointless to spend too much time in planning, anyway, given the propensity of life to make sudden left-hand turns without warning.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Sassenach,” he said against my shoulder, a moment later. "Mm?” "Who in God’s name is John Wayne?” "You are,” I said. “Go… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“the difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
All I had when I began writing the first book was rather vague images conjured up by the notion of a man… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?" "All the time," she said dryly, "on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Is it true—that I won’t forget?” He paused for a moment, hand on her hair. “Aye, that’s true,” he said softly. “But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I do recall loving 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and I know I read it in a schoolroom, but I think… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I have noticed,” she said slowly, “that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I married a lady and she became a whore. I cannot complain if it should be the other way about this time.”… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
But we are here, all of us. And we're here because I love you, more than the life that was mine. Because… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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
