Quotes from Diana Gabaldon

I never looked for it, gave it no name; yet I knew it always, when the gift of peace came. I stood quite still for the moment that it lasted, thinking it strange and not strange that grace should find me here, too.

So you don't think the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the children?" Grey sighed, pressing his shoulders against the chair to ease the stiffness in his back. "If they were, I should think humanity would have ceased to exist by now, pressed back into the earth by the accumulated weight of inherited evil.

Then came the sound of a single pair of footsteps, and then the whoosh and creak of someone settling heavily into a chair. There was silence for a moment. Then Lord John said "You can get up now, if you wish. I am supposing that you are not in fact prostrate with shock," he added, ironically. "Somehow I suspect that a mere murder would not be sufficient to discompose a woman who could deal single-handedly with a typhoid epidemic.

The implication was reasonably clear; I condemned him, and his minions would be round promptly to cut off my nipples and burn Jared's warehouse. I licked dry lips, cursing Louis. Why couldn't he just have wanted my body?

Well, you're speaking to the only man in Scotland who has a terrible cockstand at sight of a plucked chicken." I spluttered in my brandy and

Well, I say it is the place of science only to observe," he said. "To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not because it does not exist, but because we know too little to find it. It is not the place of science to insist on explanation—but only to observe, in hopes that the explanation will manifest itself.

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.

When you write it down…" he said. "Does that make it—whatever it is—real again? Or does the act of putting it into words make it unreal? You know, something…separate from yourself.

Put not your trust in princes'?

WHY DID YE never tell me that Frank Randall looked like Black Jack?

he realized, with the flicker of surprise that attends recognition of things already long known

THE GATHERING STORM

I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that so doing will keep it from departing.

Whether it was health of mind or body, the love of him was necessary to me as breath or blood. My mind reached out for him, sleeping or waking, and finding him, was satisfied.

There was no other means of anesthesia available, and I could under no circumstances do it with a conscious patient. Above all, Myers had asked me to do it. I sought Jamie's face, wanting advice. He was there, standing beside me, and saw the question in my eyes. Well, he'd

Grey felt his brows shoot up. "Green plants stop scurvy?" he blurted. "Wherever did you get that notion?

that sought to tear out his throat. The firelight gleamed on the scars that decorated Walking Elk's chest and shoulders—thick white gouges that showed briefly at the gaping neck of his shirt as he writhed picturesquely, arms straining upward against his invisible enemy. Ian found himself leaning forward, his

He was leaning on his desk, chin in his hands, staring at me. "There are shocks," I said precisely, smoothing back my damp curls and giving him an eyeball, "and then there are shocks. If you know what I mean." He looked surprised; then a flicker of understanding came into his expression.

He put his arm around her and drew her head down on his shoulder, and they sat silently together, waiting for the light to come back.

I was older, heavier, and completely berserk.

Sassenach I might be to him, but not English.

Love for a child cannot be free; from the first signs of movement in the womb, a devotion springs up as powerful as it is mindless, irresistible as the process of birth itself.

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

Tad bu?iuoki mane tu šimt? syki?, Vis? t?kstant?, antr? šimt? syki?, V?l dar t?kstant?, dar ne vien? šimt?... Daugel t?kstan?i? kai sud?sim šitaip, Juos sujaksime, kad neb?t? skai?iaus.