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Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4) QUOTES

Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4) QUOTES

161 " What is it about ye, Sassenach, I wonder?” he said conversationally, eyes still fixed on Myers. “What is what about me?” He turned then, and gave me a narrow eye. “What it is that makes every man ye meet want to take off his breeks within five minutes of meetin’ ye.” Fergus "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

162 " Cirein Croin! "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

163 " you do for shock? Hot liquids, blankets. Brandy. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

164 " sorrow and despair. All too many "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

165 " lugubriously, "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

166 " Her entrance was greeted by a general outcry of cordiality that made her mildly ashamed of her cynicism. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

167 " newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

168 " Auntie, may I present my "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

169 " Silly woman,” he said in Gaelic. “You have not the brain of a fly!” I caught the words for “foolish,” and “clumsy,” in the subsequent remarks, but quickly stopped listening. I closed my eyes and lost myself instead in the dreamy pleasure of having my hair rubbed dry and then combed out. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

170 " Whatever they are, though, they must be exigent, to cause you to contemplate such drastic expedients.” A slow smile grew on her lips, spreading into her eyes. “I really like the way you talk,” she said. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

171 " he thought perhaps it didn’t matter that they faced in opposite directions—so long as they faced each other. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

172 " With vivid memories of the last IRS form, I had signed, I agreed sympathetically that a two percent tax rate was a positive outrage, wondering to myself just what had become of the fiery spirit of American taxpayers over the intervening two hundred years. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

173 " in her voice that "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

174 " Whereas,” I chipped in, leaning forward and raising my own voice enough to be heard over the clop and creak of the horses, “if harm comes to them because of some man, the satisfaction of blaming him will be adequate compensation? "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

175 " Mr. Farquard Campbell,” the butler said quietly, and stood back against the wall. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

176 " greet a "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

177 " Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach,’ he said softly. ‘I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it.’ The "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

178 " It doesn’t matter what happens; no matter where a child goes—how far or how long. Even if it’s forever. You never lose them. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

179 " I could know ye all my life, I think, and always love you. And "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

180 " Looking for you, ye wee fool! And what in the name of all holy are you doing here? And dressed like that, God damn you!” He’d had the briefest look at her in her breeches and shirt, but it was enough. In her own time, the clothes would have been so baggy as to be sexless. After months of seeing women in long skirts and arisaids, though, the blatant division of her legs, the sheer bloody length of thigh and curve of calf, seemed so outrageous that he wanted to wrap a sheet around her. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)