“It was what you did when someone died; turned toward God and at least acknowledge the fact.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Ye’ve no idea how lovely ye look, stark naked, wi’ the sun behind you. All gold, like ye were dipped in it.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.” — Diana Gabaldon Career Copy Share Image
“I waved pleasantly after him, thinking how much I should enjoy sticking a fork into him, when the time came.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped. — Diana Gabaldon Books Copy Share Image
“when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?” — Diana Gabaldon Freedom Copy Share Image
“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his… — Diana Gabaldon Books Copy Share Image
My husband gets up at around 5.30 A.M., so I'll tuck him in around 9.30 P.M. or 10 P.M., and then I'll… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“He thought of such places in a way that had no words, only recognizing one when he came to it. He might… — Diana Gabaldon Thought Copy Share Image
You see one scene shot 25 times in one day, which is totally fascinating, but while you're watching it, you're remembering, 'This… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Will you bloody say something?" I demanded at last, in a voice that shook oiliv a little. His mouth opened, but no… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish… — Diana Gabaldon Ability Copy Share Image
“:Go to hell, Jamie," I said at last, wiping my eyes. "Go directly to hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up… — Diana Gabaldon 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
“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
“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
I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“All right," I said, waving the cup away and dabbing moisture very carefully from my lips. "I'm fine." I breathed shallowly, feeling… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Ye can at least promise me the victory,” he said, but his voice held the whisper of a question. “Yes,” I said,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“You carry me with ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens. You are mine, always, if ye… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“You may,” Tom Byrd corrected, entering with his hands full of grooming implements, “once I’ve put his lordship’s hair to rights.” He… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more delightful in life than a feather bed and an open fire—except a feather bed with a warm and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“That only by forgiveness could she forget—and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.” — Diana Gabaldon Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“But as spring blooms, the birds grow drunk with love and the bushes riot with their songs.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone’s weakness?… — 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 Claire fraser Copy Share Image
The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I. — Diana Gabaldon Future 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
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
“Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy.” — Diana Gabaldon Blasphemy Copy Share Image
“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.” — Diana Gabaldon Chronic illness Copy Share Image
“Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach," he said, his speech measured and precise, "I will take later, every time.” — Diana Gabaldon Communication Copy Share Image
“That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl” — 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
“date of our first anniversary, Jamie had been in the Bastille, and I … I had been in” — Diana Gabaldon Anniversary Copy Share Image
If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time. — Diana Gabaldon Love Copy Share Image
Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
