“The light faded slowly, retreating through the trees. The thick mossy trunks grew dense with shadow, edges still rimmed with a fugitive… — Diana Gabaldon Sunsets Copy Share Image
D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's… — Diana Gabaldon Accident Copy Share Image
“But he found the wall of prayer a barricade between himself and the wicked sly thoughts and, closing his eyes briefly, felt… — Diana Gabaldon Last kiss Copy Share Image
“I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making… — Diana Gabaldon Heart Copy Share Image
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what… — Diana Gabaldon Humor Copy Share Image
Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I want to hold you hard to me and kiss you, and never let you go. I want to take you to… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Well, a marriage between Friends is … between the Friends marrying. No clergyman, I mean, and no specific prayer or service. The two… — Diana Gabaldon Marriage Copy Share Image
“I've never been afraid of ghosts. I live with them daily, after all. When I look in a mirror, my mother's eyes… — Diana Gabaldon Fear Copy Share Image
“Which one are you sleeping with, the baron or his sister?” Percy looked amused. “Both, on occasion.” “Together?” The smile widened. His… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“And in the shadow of the square below, a small movement betrayed the presence of a man. Waiting. Roger closed his eyes,… — Diana Gabaldon Bare feet Copy Share Image
I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looking at… — Diana Gabaldon Beautiful Copy Share Image
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Once I had thought I was whole -- had seemed to be able to love a man, to bear a child, to… — Diana Gabaldon Children Copy Share Image
“Why not? I wanted to say. Because you didn’t know her, she was nothing to you. Because you were already hurt. Because… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out… — 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 Family Copy Share Image
“You don't have any hair at all at the tops of your thighs," I said, admiring the smooth white skin there. "Why… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Quite without thought, he glanced at his left hand, and saw the ghost of the scar at the base of his thumb,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was… — Diana Gabaldon Fear Copy Share Image
“In older, more primitive times (like these? asked another part of my mind), it was an act of trust to sleep in… — Diana Gabaldon Psychology Copy Share Image
Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then… — Diana Gabaldon Affection Copy Share Image
Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the… — Diana Gabaldon Disarmed Copy Share Image
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop. The line from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland… — Diana Gabaldon Good advice 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 Laugh Copy Share Image
“Fat-heided creatures, the Carmichaels," she said judiciously. "Loyal enough, but stubborn as rocks." "Thus sayeth a Fraser," I remarked. "The Carmichaels must… — Diana Gabaldon Claire fraser Copy Share Image
“With vivid memories of the last IRS form, I had signed, I agreed sympathetically that a two percent tax rate was a… — Diana Gabaldon Taxes Copy Share Image
...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men;… — Diana Gabaldon Feminism 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
“I’m not sure that religion was constructed with time travelers in mind.” Buck’s brows rose at that. “Constructed?” he echoed, surprised. “Who… — Diana Gabaldon Psychology Copy Share Image
“was remote, even for a Highland farm. No real roads led there, but the post still reached us by messenger, over the… — Diana Gabaldon Journey Copy Share Image
“I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up… — Diana Gabaldon Feminism Copy Share Image
“Blessed are those who eat greens, for they shall keep their teeth. Blessed are those who wash their hands after wiping their… — Diana Gabaldon Blessed Copy Share Image
With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had… — Diana Gabaldon Beautiful Copy Share Image
“If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying… — Diana Gabaldon Liar Copy Share Image
“Christ,” he said in an undertone, bending down so I could hear him. “And she’s been a woman less than a full… — Diana Gabaldon Natural talent Copy Share Image
