Diana Gabaldon quotes - page 5

Then let amourous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred and a Thousand more. (Diana Gabaldon)
I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I don't know how long we sat there on the dusty floor, crying in each others arms with the longing of twenty years spilling down our faces. View quote
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But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And, Sassenach," he whispered, "your face is my heart. View quote
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There aren't any answers, only choices. View quote
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Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master... and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own. View quote
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Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart." Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me. a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you. View quote
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Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye. View quote
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... well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment? View quote
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Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me? View quote
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This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it. View quote
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If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time. (Diana Gabaldon)
He's a man... and that's no small thing to be. View quote
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I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented. View quote
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Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man. View quote
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Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you? View quote
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When I decided to write a novel, I had two full time jobs and three children under the age of six, so I don't want anyone telling me they don't have time to write a book, but I learned to work in the middle of the night, and I still do that... View quote
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I was a university professor and all of my degrees were in the biological sciences, so I did know my way around a library. That's why I decided on historical fiction. It seems easier to look things up than to make them up. If it turned out I had no imagination, I could steal things from the historical record! View quote
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First, a good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not body fluids. In other words, what's going on physically is not really important. It's what's going on emotionally that's important. You use the physical attributes or setting, only as a means of anchoring the reader in the moment, but it's about what's going on between these two people. And that leads to the second principle, which is that a good sex scene can only happen between two unique and specific people... View quote
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I was just looking for a time and place in which to set a historical novel because I wanted to practise writing one. I wasn't going to show it to anyone, let alone get it published, so it didn't really matter where I set it. I saw this young man in a kilt and thought that was quite fetching, so why not Scotland in the 18th century? View quote
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I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence. View quote
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I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line. (Diana Gabaldon)
Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime. View quote
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You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live. View quote
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Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man. View quote
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What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi' a fish whilst I was fighting for my life? View quote
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