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Diana Gabaldon QUOTES

Diana Gabaldon QUOTES

1 " For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary "

― Diana Gabaldon , Outlander (Outlander, #1)

2 " Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Outlander (Outlander, #1)

3 " When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Outlander (Outlander, #1)

4 " It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Voyager (Outlander, #3)

5 " I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

6 " Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Outlander (Outlander, #1)

7 " And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Outlander (Outlander, #1)

8 " Gentle he would be, denied he would not. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Outlander (Outlander, #1)

9 " It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch. "

― Diana Gabaldon , The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel

10 " I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking
what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles
with his bollucks, aye? "

― Diana Gabaldon , The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)

11 " Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Outlander (Outlander, #1)

12 " Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed. "

― Diana Gabaldon , An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)

13 " Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits. "

― Diana Gabaldon

14 " One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough. "

― Diana Gabaldon

15 " Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully. "

― Diana Gabaldon , The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John Grey, #3)

16 " It's the anonymity of the war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers. "

― Diana Gabaldon , The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)

17 " 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 , The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John Grey, #3)

18 " 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. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

19 " He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh. "

― Diana Gabaldon , The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)

20 " Not the historians. No, not them. Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-- for the most part, they think what they were meant to think, and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smokescreen of artifacts and paper...No, the fault lies with the artists...The writers, the singers, the tellers of tales. It's them that take the past and re-create it to their liking. Them that could take a fool and give you back a hero, take a sot and make him a king...Liars?...or sorcerers? Do they see the bones in the dust of the earth, see the essence of a thing that was, and clothe it in new flesh, so the plodding beast reemerges as a fabulous monster? "

― Diana Gabaldon , Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)