Quotes from Diana Gabaldon

Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me, a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you. Until we two burn to ashes.

I'll start wi' Ian," he said, picking up the

small porch; wooden, but filled—mirabile dictu!—with

I am going to be where you are for the rest of our lives, I said firmly. If that's a week or another forty years. Longer, he said, and smiled

But whoever said funerals were for the benefit of the living had had the right of it.

Her name was Geneva Dunsany," Grey said. "My wife's sister.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician. That much, Raymond had taught me.

Not all who are born to it have the courage to take hold of the power that is their right.

How to tell her in words, then, what he had learned himself by pain and grace? That only by forgiveness could she forget—and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice. Perhaps

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

And the chief difference is this: that people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced. "Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "—but far more dangerous.

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

You—shoot him, can't you?" Jamie shrugged and, lifting the rifle to

The most important thing I've learned about women, Sassenach, is which one to choose.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink, For fellows whom it hurts to think.

she became aware that

Your wife?" I said, goggling at him. He flushed deeply and looked away. If I had been in any doubt about the nature of the look I had seen him give Jamie, I wasn't any longer.

to dry the damp hem, and the firelight glowed from both my rings. A strong disposition to

An unfortunate affair of the heart! He smiled grimly, dipping his pen. Perhaps Hal had a greater sensitivity than he'd thought, in so describing it. But then, all his affairs had been unfortunate, since Hector's death at Culloden. With the thought of Culloden, the thought of Fraser came back to him; something he had been avoiding all day.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are—or for not coming back.

My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we go next. To France, to Italy, even back to Scotland. My heart has been yours since first I saw ye, and you've held my soul and body between your two hands here, and kept them safe. We shall go as ye say.

Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like," he said, "but God made hope.

I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say, 'You're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.'

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.