Diana Gabaldon Quotes - Page 6

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• That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

  Diana Gabaldon

  Jamie, Sacraments, Jamie Fraser

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• What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Niece, Blood, Years

  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.2966, Dell

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• I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Next, Scream, Farms

  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.308, Dell

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• He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Giving, Mama, Lows

  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.1684, Dell

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• Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But do you love him?" Did I love him? Beyond the urges of the flesh? The hole had the dark anonymity of the confessional, and a soul on the verge of death had no time for lies. "Yes," I said, and laid my head back on my knees. It was silent in the hole for some time, and I hovered once more on the verge of sleep, when I heard her speak once more, as though to herself. "So it's possible," she said thoughtfully.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Mean, Sleep

  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.408, 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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• Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't see her face, or the tears that prickled at the corners of her eyes. 'What do you sing?' she whispered back. She heard the shush of the linen pillow as he shook his head. 'No song I've ever heard, or know,' he said softly. 'But I know I'm singing it for you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dream, Song, Eye

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1114, Delacorte Press

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• I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Bulls, Rotting, Want

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• The overseer wouldna speak to me of Ian, but he told me other things that would curl your hair, if it wasna already curled up like sheep's wool." He glanced at me, and a half-smile lit his face, inspite of his obvious perturbation. "Judging by the state of your hair, Sassenach, I should say that it's going to rain verra soon now.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Rain, Sheep, Hair

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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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• Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Regret, Kissing, Kiss Me

  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.2278, Dell

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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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• People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Writing, People, Different

  "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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• I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Beginnings And Ends, Plot

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• And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Memories, Devil, Ifs

  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.4420, Dell

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• I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.

  Diana Gabaldon

  New York, Romance, Enough

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• Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
  --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

  Diana Gabaldon

  Believe, Divorce, Catholic

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• It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Fall, Autumn

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.464, Dell

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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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• 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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• And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

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  Advice, Trying, Growing

  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.1987, Dell

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• Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Heart, Character, Fiction

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• I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that he could cut the rope. He quit grappling, and clutched me so hard against him that I yelped in pain as my face was pressed against his plaid. He was saying something else, urgently, but I couldn’t manage to translate it. Energy pulsed through him, hot and violent, like the current in a live wire, and I vaguely realized that he was still almost berserk; he had no English.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Pain, Cutting, Blood

  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.4706, Dell

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• Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

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  Worst Enemy, Highlander, Ifs

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1560, Delacorte Press

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• …but Sassenach—I am the true home of your heart, and I know that.” He lifted my hands to his mouth and kissed my upturned palms, one and then the other, his breath warm and his beard-stubble soft on my fingers. “I have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenach—but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands,” he said softly. “And you know that.

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  Home, Heart, Hands

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