Quotes from Diana Gabaldon

thought that was perhaps how some ghosts were made; where a will and a purpose had survived, heedless of the frail flesh that fell by the wayside, unable to sustain life long enough.

Lord, that she might be safe, he prayed. She and the child.

make a difference? An instant's panic, as she tried to visualize

It is possible to act in strict accordance with God's law and with one's conscience, you comprehend, and still to encounter difficulties and tragedy. It is the painful truth that we still do not know why le bon Dieu allows evil to exist, but we have His word for it that this is true.

Ye ken that, don't ye? That they can only be what they are because you and I are what we are?

Please," she said, "don't mention Jamie Fraser to my daughter.

I married a lady and she became a whore. I cannot complain if it should be the other way about this time." "You think I'm a whore, do you?" She wasn't sure whether to be amused or insulted. Perhaps both. "Do you normally sleep with your victims, madam?" "I wasn't asleep, Your Grace, and if you had been, I think I would have noticed. (A Fugitive Green)

Stephan's hand left his breast, and reached out. Grey took it, and felt love flow between them. He thought that heart and body must be entirely melted—if only for that moment. Then they parted, each drawing back, each seeing the flash of desolation in the other's face, both smiling ruefully to see it.

He wasn't going to pretend it hadn't hurt to hear it, but he wouldn't let himself be angry; that would help neither of them.

I'm glad you're not dead. Wasn't sure for a bit." Hal went out before he could reply. Tears welled in John's eyes, and he dashed at them with the sleeve of his nightshirt, muttering irritably in a vain attempt to convince himself that he wasn't moved.

But you are not God, and there are limits to what you can expect of yourself.

Roger Wakefield: ésta es mi hija, Brianna. Brianna Randall dio un paso adelante con una sonrisa tímida.

Yirmi y?lda kaç gece vard?r k?z?m? Kaç saat vard?r? Yirmi y?l boyunca kar?m?n hala yaÅŸay?p yaÅŸamad???n? ve nas?l yaÅŸad???n? düÅŸünüp durdum. Onun ve çocuÄŸumun. Tanr? bu yüzden var. EndiÅŸe hiçbir iÅŸe yaramaz, dua yarar. Bazen...

When ye ha' bairns, there's that wee time when ye really are all they need. And then they leave your arms and ye're scairt all over again, because now ye ken all the things that could harm them, and you not able to keep them from it.

Fraser closed his eyes for an instant, frowning, then opened them again. "I see," he said, very dry. "So was I to kill him, ye'd be obliged to fight me? And if he killed me, ye'd fight him? And should we kill each other, what then?" "I suppose I'd call a surgeon to dispose of your bodies and then commit suicide," Grey said, a little testily. "But let us not be rhetorical.

Feelings aren't truth.

My father wasna always gentle, but he was usually fair," Jamie said imperturbably. "He said the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions, which is right.

a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so

They're girls," she replied briefly. "They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance." But

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth.

What I meant is that he has Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â He hesitated, not quite sure how to put it into words. "… a sense of himself that is quite separate from what society demands. He is inclined to make his own rules.

Would you go down there, Roger?" she asked softly. "Jump overboard, dive in, go on down through that dark until your lungs were bursting, not knowing whether there are things with teeth and great heavy bodies waiting?

if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

There is a great difference between those phenomena which are accepted on faith, and those which are proved by objective determination, though the cause of both may be equally 'rational' once known. 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.