Quotes by Diana Gabaldon

Roger speaking to Brianna: Its too important. You dont forget having a dad.You do remember your father?No. I remember yours.

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

He wasnt a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.

Now, me lord, you know you oughtn’t talk like that at this hour of the morning. Yougot to pardon his lordship, sir,” he said apologetically to Jones. “His father—theduke, you know—had him schooled in logic. He can’t really help it, like.” Spoken by a most loyal valet, Tom Bryd, in defense of the inherit workings of the mind of his employer, Lord John Grey

Thats the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady.

You have lost your mind,Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.

God, dont laugh! Jamie said, alarmed. I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!

After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity?

Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, still lively as ever in their winding sheet of words.

Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they were at any age-at any time, even when the child is fully grown or a parent themselves.

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

Jamie reached across and took my right hand in his, his fingers linking with mine, and the silver of my ring shone red in the glow of the flames. I looked up into his face and saw the promise spoken in his eyes, as it was in mine.“As long as we both shall live.

For the moment, everything had disappeared: the church, the battle, the screams and shouts and the rumble of limber wheels along the rutted road through Freehold. There wasnt anything but her and him, and he opened his eyes to look on her face, to fix it in his mind forever.

So now its space and time, he said. You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?All the time, she said dryly, on the BBC. And dont think I wouldnt sell my soul for a TARDIS.

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own hearts blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and family, love.She cast a lopsided smile at Jamie. And thats saying quite a bit.

Blessed are those who eat greens, for they shall keep their teeth. Blessed are those who wash their hands after wiping their arses, for they shall not sicken. Blessed are those who boil water, for they shall be called saviors of mankind.

Its a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.