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One Quotes by Diana Gabaldon
- I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to…
- A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully,"…
- I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly,…
- I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you…
- Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they…
- I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the…
- This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it,…
- It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly…
- There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs…
- Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye…
- ...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it…
- Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?" Aroused by my voice, he swayed alarmingly to one side, but caught himself on…
- So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still…
- One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the…
- He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world…
- That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of…
- …but Sassenach—I am the true home of your heart, and I know that.” He lifted my hands to his mouth and kissed my upturned palms,…
- I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
- But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to…
- At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against…
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