Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9) QUOTES

2 " Ye dinna stop loving someone just because they’re deid,” she said reprovingly. “I canna suppose they stop lovin’ you, either. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

4 " But each one of us is called to live our lives in the smaller moments; to do kindness, to risk our feelings, to take a chance on someone else, to meet the needs of the people we care for. Because God is everywhere, and lives in all of us. Those small moments are His. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

6 " Meals were the daily bane of my existence; not so much the constant work of picking, cleaning, chopping, cooking—though those activities were fairly baneful in themselves—but primarily the never-ending chore of remembering what we had on hand, and balancing the effort required to make it edible against the knowledge of what might spoil if we didn’t eat it right away. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

8 " No man owns his own life,” he said. “Part of you is always in someone else’s hands. All ye can do is hope it’s mostly God’s hands you’re in. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

10 " 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. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

12 " You go into a situation with an expectation,' his uncle Hal had told him once, during a discussion of military tactics. 'You should know what you want to happen, even if what you want is no more than your own survival. That expectation will dictate your actions.

'Since,' his father had neatly interposed, 'you might do something different, if you only wanted to get out alive, than you would if your primary desire was to keep a majority of your troops alive. And something else again, if what you wanted was to defeat an opposing commander and damn the cost. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

14 " Ningún hombre es dueño de su propia vida”, dijo. “Una parte de ti siempre está en manos de otra persona. Todo lo que puedes hacer es esperar que sea principalmente en las manos de Dios en las que estás”. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

16 " He had a dim memory of his father telling him that a secret remained a secret only so long as just one person knew it. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

18 " Bless Thou, O God, the dwelling,” he said, “And each who rests herein this night; Bless Thou, O God, my beloved ones In every place wherein they sleep; In the night that is to-night, And every night; In the day that is to-day, And every day. May this sacred iron be witness To the love of God and the guarding of this house. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

20 " No man owns his own life,” he said. “Part of you is always in someone else’s hands. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)