Quotes from Diana Gabaldon

We believe the light of Christ is present in all men—though in some cases, perceiving it is somewhat difficult

He said there was always an hour in the day when time seems to stop—but that it was different for everyone. He thought it might be the hour when one was born.

There are things ye maybe canna tell me, he had said. I willna ask ye, or force ye. But when ye do tell me something, let it be the truth. There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think—but not for lies.

A duty, she said, holding his hand between her own. The duty of a survivor. Not everyone lives to be old, but if you do, I think you owe it to those who didn't. To tell the stories of those who shared your journey… for as long as they could.

I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn't know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost.

We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway.

Fighting was an exhausting business, and so was fear.

Do women hold back the evolution of such things as freedom and other social ideals, out of fear for themselves or their children? Or do they in fact inspire such things—and the risks required to reach them—by providing the things worth fighting for?

Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comforted by the realization that, in fact, he never left.

The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the back pew.

could murder a plateful of eggs.

It starts out the same, but then, after a moment," he said, speaking softly, "suddenly it's as though I've a living flame in my arms." His touch grew firmer, outlining my lips and caressing the line of my jaw. "And I want only to throw myself into it and be consumed." I

Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?

Well, the Church does teach that self-abuse is a sin, but my father said he thought that if it came to a choice between abusin' yourself or some poor woman, a decent man might choose to make the sacrifice.

I felt at once horribly vulnerable and yet completely safe.

Do not forget to entertain strangers," Buck said in the same language, "for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

You do know that women aren't rational, don't you?" "I do. Neither are men." "Well, you have a point

That's how ye do it,' his brother Ian had told him... 'Ye find a way to live for that one more minute. And then another. And another... But after a time, ye find ye're in a different place than ye were. A different person than ye were. And then ye look about and see what's there with ye. Ye'll maybe find a use for yourself. That helps.

bein' cooped up indoors." The little finger waggled briefly.

Grey was modest about his own endowments, but also honest enough to admit that he possessed some and that his person was reasonably attractive to women.

I'm not entirely sure the Scots realize they lost that one," I interrupted, sitting up and trying to subdue my hair. "I distinctly heard the barman at that pub last night refer to us as Sassenachs." "Well, why not?" said Frank equably. "It only means 'Englishman,' after all, or at worst, 'outlander,' and we're all of that.

It's strange," he said, "when he was alive, I didna pay him much heed. But once he was dead, the things he'd told me had a good deal more influence.

His heart was beating very erratically; perhaps it would conveniently stop. He waited for a moment to allow it to do this if it liked, but it went on cheerfully thumping away.

A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely benign—or at least you hope so—but you are laying violent hands on someone, and you must be ruthless in order to do it effectively. And sometimes the person under your hands will die, and knowing that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you do it anyway. I