Diana Gabaldon quotes - page 3

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 hear it. (Diana Gabaldon)
My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser.
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Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
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I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.
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If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.
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No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
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Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.
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So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie.
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And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?
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Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
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Home is the place where they have to take you in. (Diana Gabaldon)
Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.
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What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
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Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie--and yet ye love me.
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People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.
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It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.
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I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
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Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?
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Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.
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It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.
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Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener. (Diana Gabaldon)
I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser.
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Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. "Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. "Oh, no, Mam!” he said. "It's worse. He's brought a lawyer!
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I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.
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I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.
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