I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Facing something down doesn´t mean you aren´t afraid of it," I said dryly. "Usually quite the opposite.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.” — Diana Gabaldon Clock Copy Share Image
“Do me the one favor, Sassenach,” he said, draping the heavy velvet over my shoulders. “Take a larger fan.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist.” — Diana Gabaldon Father Copy Share Image
Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies. — Diana Gabaldon Enemies Copy Share Image
“He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical… — Diana Gabaldon Marriage Copy Share Image
“There is a saying: in the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king. I promptly invented its analogy, based… — Diana Gabaldon Analogy Copy Share Image
“He had learned early on the trick of living separately in a crowd, private in his mind when his body could not… — Diana Gabaldon Learning Copy Share Image
“I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach.” His hand cupped my breast, gently now. “I suppose I… — Diana Gabaldon Lonely Copy Share Image
“I have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenach—but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands,” he said… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“He turned his head to look full at me, his hair fire-struck with the setting sun, face dark in silhouette. "Twenty-four years… — Diana Gabaldon Jamie fraser Copy Share Image
“And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the… — Diana Gabaldon Beginning Copy Share Image
“What sort of mother talks about whores on her deathbed? Your mother wouldn’t do that, would she?" "I have no idea,” Grey… — Diana Gabaldon Humor Copy Share Image
“He reached out a long arm and drew me in, holding me close against him. I put my arms around him and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Matters did not proceed as smoothly as he had hoped. For one thing, Maude was present, and loud in her disbelief that… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites… — Diana Gabaldon Babies Copy Share Image
“Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - generals tend to go in for that sort… — Diana Gabaldon Brave Copy Share Image
“William coughed and broke the seal. As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle… — Diana Gabaldon Writing Copy Share Image
“that made me relieved that looks in fact cannot kill. Jamie followed me up to my chamber, and somewhat to my surprise,… — Diana Gabaldon Chafing 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 Family Copy Share Image
“A man killed with a musket was just as dead as one killed with a mortar. It was just that the mortar… — Diana Gabaldon War Copy Share Image
“a Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases,” — Diana Gabaldon Character Copy Share Image
She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition. — Diana Gabaldon Love Copy Share Image
“I only said I felt like God, Sassenach," he murmured. "I never said I was.” — Diana Gabaldon God Copy Share Image
“the good man’s only singularity lies in his approving welcome to every experience the looms of fate may weave for him,” — Diana Gabaldon Fate Copy Share Image
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“It was a leap of faith—to throw one’s heart across a gulf, and trust another to catch it.” — Diana Gabaldon Faith Copy Share Image
If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his… — Diana Gabaldon Good man Copy Share Image
“Live with Highlanders long enough, and every damn rock and tree meant something! Perhaps” — Diana Gabaldon Highlanders 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
“Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“fortunately it came out as a mere breath of sound. Another body turned over, rustling,” — Diana Gabaldon Rustling Copy Share Image
“There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh," he said softly. "The greatest of warriors may be overcome.” — Diana Gabaldon War Copy Share Image
“Queen's knight," he said quietly. "To queen two." It was, he knew, a dangerous opening.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“left me studying the birds, with the assurance that he would shortly” — Diana Gabaldon Assurance Copy Share Image
“The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help… — Diana Gabaldon Book Copy Share Image
