Diana Gabaldon Quotes - Page 7

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• What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Art, Patterns, Chaos

  "AUTHOR INTERVIEW - Accidental Tourist / Diana Gabaldon reveals the inspiration for her popular time-travel series" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. January 26, 1997.

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• ......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Doe, Matter, Born

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.4168, Dell

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• I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser

  Diana Gabaldon

  Naked, Crosses, Dripping

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• I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Block, Projects, Multiple

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• I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Reading, Years

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• Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dad, Father, Important

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• Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Song, Sound, Scholar

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.20, Dell

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

  Diana Gabaldon

  Noses, Odd, Circumstances

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1445, Dell

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• Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Sleep, Hands, Needs

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• He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Children, Moving, Air

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel”, p.521, Delacorte Press

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• He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Memories, World, Lost

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.19, Dell

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• There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Small Objects, Hands, Eggs

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.614, Dell

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• I didn't say you shouldn't worry, do you think I don't worry? But no, you probably can't do anything about me.' 'Well, maybe no, Sassenach, and maybe so. But I've lived a long enough time now to think it maybe doesna matter so much-- so long as I can love you.' -Claire & Jamie Fraser

  Diana Gabaldon

  Love You, Thinking, Long

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• She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Unfortunate, Conditions

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.3290, Dell

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• Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones!

  Diana Gabaldon

  Hate, Bones, Guts

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1390, Dell

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• Do ye dare to draw arms against the justice of God?" snapped the tubby little judge. Jamie drew the sword completely, with a flash of steel, then thrust it point-first into the ground, leaving the hilt quivering with the force of the blow. "I draw it in defense of this women, and the truth," he said "If any here be against those two they'll answer to me, and then God, in that order.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Blow, Justice Of God, Order

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.618, Delacorte Press

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• ...still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you; I want someone for you to go to if I am...not there to care for you. If it canna be me, then I would have it be a man who loves you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Love You, Men, Doe

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• you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

  Diana Gabaldon

  Perfect, Might, Lasts

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• Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Two, Outlander, Two Of Us

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• If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Needs, Guidance, Asks

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.324, Delacorte Press

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• It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Ideas, Comforting, Important

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.606, Dell

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• I was born for you" -Claire Fraser, Outlander

  Diana Gabaldon

  Claire, Born, Outlander

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• 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

  Horse, Dark, Tree

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.461, Dell

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• But we are here, all of us. And we're here because I love you, more than the life that was mine. Because I believed you loved me the same way...will you tell me that's not true? No, he said after a moment, so softly I could barely hear him. His hand tightened harder on mine. No, I willna tell ye that. Not ever, Claire.

  Diana Gabaldon

  I Love You More, Hands, Way

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

  Diana Gabaldon

  Witch, Easier, Outlander

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