Diana Gabaldon quotes - page 6

I heard you went to Ireland... I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful? Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough. (Diana Gabaldon)
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
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I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.
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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 finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.
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No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.
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I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.
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He turned his head to look full at me, his hair fire-struck with the setting sun, face dark in silhouette. "Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach," he said softly. "I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it." -Jamie Fraser.
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Ye werena the first lass I kissed,” he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.” And he bent his head to my upturned face.
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Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed!
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All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
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For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it. (Diana Gabaldon)
I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.
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I loveI have loved ye from the moment I saw ye, I will love ye 'til time itself is done, and so long as you are by my side, I am well pleased wi' the world.
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Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.
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Sassenach,” he said against my shoulder, a moment later. "Mm?” "Who in God's name is John Wayne?” "You are,” I said. "Go to sleep.
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And you, my Sassenach? What were you born for? To be lady of a manor, or to sleep in the fields like a gypsy? To be a healer, or a don's wife, or an outlaw's lady?" "I was born for you," I said simply, and held out my arms to him.
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I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!
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A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.
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Thy life's journey lies along its own path, Ian,” she said, "and I cannot share thy journey-but I can walk beside thee. And I will.
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Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach," he said, his speech measured and precise, "I will take later, every time.
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And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire--- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. --Jamie. (Diana Gabaldon)
Are you alright?" "No, I bumped my head." Rubbing the spot, I looked dazedly around the bare hallway. "What did I bang it on?" I demanded ungrammatically. "head." he said, rather grumpily, I thought.
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I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.
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Jamie shook his head at me admiringly. "And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well!” He neatly dodged the blow I aimed at his ear, and grinned at me.
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He blinked, and his eyes moved at last from her face, slowly taking in her appearance, and- with what seemed to her a new and horrified awareness- her height. "My God," he croaked. "
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