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Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations. By Diana Gabaldon

Ye can stick your comfort straight up your arse, MacKenzie, and your goddamned stiff prick, too! By Diana Gabaldon

If a ship's coming in from a port known to have plague of some kind, the damned Hollanders make the sailors swim ashore naked. By Diana Gabaldon

They do say that God protects fools - but I think even the Almighty will lose patience now and then. By Diana Gabaldon

Captain Leonard introduced me briefly to Mr. Overholt, the By Diana Gabaldon

There's always a prayer, a nighean, even if it's only A Dhia, cuidich mi. Oh, God - help me. By Diana Gabaldon

You know historians - can't leave a puzzle alone By Diana Gabaldon

I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, By Diana Gabaldon

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three. By Diana Gabaldon

Women are never too old to wear pink," Fergus replied firmly. "I have heard les mesdames say so, many times. By Diana Gabaldon

Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith. By Diana Gabaldon

He hadn't worn the kilt since Culloden, but his body had not forgotten the way of it. By Diana Gabaldon

neighborhood - his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.' By Diana Gabaldon

The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from the open book of his heart. By Diana Gabaldon

Claire. The name knifed across his heart with a pain that was more racking than anything his body had ever been called on to withstand. By Diana Gabaldon

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

I loved Frank ... I loved him alot. But by that time, Jamie was my heart and the breath of my body. I couldn't leave him. I couldn't. By Diana Gabaldon

Knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances. By Diana Gabaldon

I loved Frank," I said quietly, not looking at Bree. "I loved him a lot. But by that time, Jamie was my heart and the breath of my body. By Diana Gabaldon

I waved pleasantly after him, thinking how much I should enjoy sticking a fork into him, when the time came. By Diana Gabaldon

Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it. By Diana Gabaldon

A file of red-coated soldiers came at the quick-march from the other end of the quay, splitting the crowd like vinegar dropped on mayonnaise. By Diana Gabaldon

I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay. By Diana Gabaldon

Open your eyes and tell me yourself, Sassenash, said a deep urgent voice somewhere close. By Diana Gabaldon

Strength of bone and fire of mind, all wrapped around a core of steel-hard purpose that would make him a deadly projectile, once set on any course. By Diana Gabaldon

Is it wrong, Hector? he thought. That I should love a man who might have killed you? By Diana Gabaldon

Sassenach. He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. By Diana Gabaldon

My dear daughter,As you will see if ever you receive this, we are alive. . . . By Diana Gabaldon

Massive edifice, with its impenetrable walls, its monumental gate, and its red-coated guards, I began to have doubts. What By Diana Gabaldon

If one day, a bhailach ... ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards. By Diana Gabaldon

My grandsire,' Jamie observed evenly, 'has by all reports got a character that would enable him to hide conveniently behind a spiral staircase. By Diana Gabaldon

She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition. By Diana Gabaldon

Involuntarily, I reached out, as though I might heal him with a touch and erase the marks with my fingers. By Diana Gabaldon

Ye're mine, Sassenach. And I would do anything I thought I must to make that clear. By Diana Gabaldon

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

If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.''Yes, he ... was.''Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife. By Diana Gabaldon

The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the back pew. By Diana Gabaldon

Shades of Harry the deserter, I thought furiously. What in God's name is the British army coming to? Glorious traditions, my aunt Fanny. By Diana Gabaldon

Our lovemaking was always risk and promise-for if he held my life in his hands when he lay with me, I held his soul, and knew it. By Diana Gabaldon

I could feel the heat glowing from him, with that sudden rise of temperature which presages falling asleep in very young children. By Diana Gabaldon

I am a sassenach, after all," I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. "Aye, mo duinne. But you're my sassenach. By Diana Gabaldon

A sadist with a sense of humor was particularly dangerous. By Diana Gabaldon

I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches with those who can. By Diana Gabaldon

thought much of women; their grace and beauty, blooming like lotus flowers, floating like milkweed on the wind. By Diana Gabaldon

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

It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach By Diana Gabaldon

If it was a sin for you to choose me ... then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it. By Diana Gabaldon

Good morning, Sassenach, By Diana Gabaldon

It's only the essence of a thing that counts. When time strips everything else away, it's only the hardness of the bone that's left. By Diana Gabaldon

Yes. 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. You can't. By Diana Gabaldon

THE VENOM OF THE NORTH WIND July 1774 Brianna drove the sharp end of the spade into the muddy bank and pulled out a By Diana Gabaldon

That's the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady. By Diana Gabaldon

You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live. By Diana Gabaldon

said. "And how is Oggy today? By Diana Gabaldon

If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back. By Diana Gabaldon

Peering at the crest, with its faded leopard couchant, By Diana Gabaldon

If," I said through my teeth, "you ever raise a hand to me again, James Fraser, I'll cut out your heart and fry it for breakfast! By Diana Gabaldon

When you kissed me like that well maybe you weren't so sorry to be marrying me after all. By Diana Gabaldon

Is it usual, what it is between us when I touch you? By Diana Gabaldon

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously."I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained. By Diana Gabaldon

I'll be setting off just after the Angelus bell- at noon, I mean - should that suit your honors. By Diana Gabaldon

What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi' a fish whilst I was fighting for my life? By Diana Gabaldon

Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil. By Diana Gabaldon

You're the world I have," she murmured, and then her breathing changed, and she took him down with her into safety. By Diana Gabaldon

Social prejudice is a strong force, but no match for simple competence when skill is in urgent demand and short supply. By Diana Gabaldon

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous. By Diana Gabaldon

Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach," he said softly. "I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it. By Diana Gabaldon

You're real, he whispered. I had thought him pale already. Now all vestiges of color drained from his face. By Diana Gabaldon

You didn't say there was a stone circle, I said. I felt faint, and not only from the heat and damp. By Diana Gabaldon

Thy life's journey lies along its own path, Ian," she said, "and I cannot share thy journey - but I can walk beside thee. And I will. By Diana Gabaldon

There's no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands. By Diana Gabaldon

And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life? By Diana Gabaldon

And if she wasn't precisely pretty, she had a force of character that is often more attractive than simple beauty. By Diana Gabaldon

It's a terrible thing, to think it might be me that would be the threat, that I could kill you with my love-but it's true. By Diana Gabaldon

She was the sort of girl called "bonny" - not beautiful, but lively and nicely made, with something about her that took the eye. By Diana Gabaldon

I tell you what. Pick it up, open it anywhere, and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar. By Diana Gabaldon

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. By Diana Gabaldon

I could see the water purling away from keeled scales that ran in a crest down the sinuous neck. By Diana Gabaldon

Just as my grandmother taught me, and her grandmother before her. By Diana Gabaldon

HAVE FOUND HIM STOP, it read. WILL YOU COME BACK QUERY ROGER. By Diana Gabaldon

Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage. By Diana Gabaldon

Aye, verra good. Now then, if ye'll just put your hands above your head and seize the bedstead - By Diana Gabaldon

Go down," she said, "and tell them the MacKenzies are here. By Diana Gabaldon

There are only two people in this world to whom I would never lie, Sassenach," he said softly. "Ye're one of them. And I'm the other. By Diana Gabaldon

My own smile lingered as I watched her, and whispered to her sleep-deaf ears, as I had so many times before, God, you are so like him. By Diana Gabaldon

I was in the heart of chaos, and no power of mind or body was of use against it. By Diana Gabaldon

You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go By Diana Gabaldon

His traitorous, deprived anatomy didn't care a whit that she was a selfish, blackmailing little bitch. By Diana Gabaldon

Your face is my heart, Sassenach," he said softly, "and love of you is my soul. But you're right; ye canna be my conscience. By Diana Gabaldon

Nothing moved on the surface but faint coruscations of starlight, caught like fireflies in a spider's web. By Diana Gabaldon

small bottle of penicillin tablets. By Diana Gabaldon

The curious alchemy of cookery, that process of making the transfer of life from one being to another palatable. By Diana Gabaldon

Well, ye're kind, too," he said, considering. "Verra kind. Though ye are inclined to do it on your own terms. Not that that's bad, mind," he added, By Diana Gabaldon

Sassenach," he said against my shoulder, a moment later. "Mm?" "Who in God's name is John Wayne?" "You are," I said. "Go to sleep. By Diana Gabaldon

You know what scholars are like; no conscience at all when it comes to their own field, let alone a sense of social delicacy. By Diana Gabaldon

Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes. By Diana Gabaldon

Ute McGillivray looked like a Valkyrie on a starchy diet; By Diana Gabaldon

Come on!" he said, grunting as he shifted the Chinaman's slippery form for a better grip. "They'll be after us any moment! By Diana Gabaldon

Real danger had its own taste, vivid as lemon juice, by contrast with the weak lemonade of imagination. By Diana Gabaldon

It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered. By Diana Gabaldon

heads that edged the huge fireplace, and I By Diana Gabaldon

All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am. By Diana Gabaldon

It would take a real daftie to forget that, Sassenach," he said. "I may be lacking practice, but I havena lost all my faculties yet. By Diana Gabaldon

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done. By Diana Gabaldon

That is what God is for. Worry doesna help - prayer does. Sometimes, By Diana Gabaldon

He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made. By Diana Gabaldon

Aye, I see. Aye well, I suppose if I shall be in Scotland, and still married to you - then maybe 'when' doesna matter so much. By Diana Gabaldon

It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it. By Diana Gabaldon

I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that! By Diana Gabaldon

A man should pay tribute to your body," he said softly... "For you are beautiful, and that is your right. By Diana Gabaldon

Your aunt's a handsome woman, Fraser, but she could freeze the ballocks off the King o' Japan, and she wanted to. By Diana Gabaldon

Besides," he added cynically, "a pair of ballocks may bring a man more sorrow than joy - though I havena met many who'd wish them gone, for all that. By Diana Gabaldon

Also was remembering the baronet who might have been his father. He reached By Diana Gabaldon

Reputation depended often on the smallest of actions, the daily decisions made with honor and responsibility, not the huge drama of heroic battles. By Diana Gabaldon

If God makes man in His image, we all return the favor. By Diana Gabaldon

Did the ancient Gaels not wear undergarments?" Frank leered. "You've never heard that old song about what a Scotsman wears beneath his kilts? By Diana Gabaldon

Going into his master's house to ravish his daughter's maidenhood - at her request? He had never heard of a less sensible prospect. By Diana Gabaldon

The good man's only singularity lies in his approving welcome to every experience the looms of fate may weave for him, By Diana Gabaldon

Not Duncan, but Da's down there By Diana Gabaldon

intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself. By Diana Gabaldon

I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach." His hand cupped my breast, gently now. "I suppose I find myself lonely without ye. By Diana Gabaldon

God, don't 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! By Diana Gabaldon

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

Date of our first anniversary, Jamie had been in the Bastille, and I ... I had been in By Diana Gabaldon

Tent for a day and a night. The tent shook and heaved, and voices By Diana Gabaldon

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie By Diana Gabaldon

If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. By Diana Gabaldon

Next time I marry someone, I'll pick a lass who wakes up cheerful in the morning, By Diana Gabaldon

A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking. By Diana Gabaldon

If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time. By Diana Gabaldon

If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait. By Diana Gabaldon

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me. By Diana Gabaldon

This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with dreams and mystery. By Diana Gabaldon

What he felt, though, was the echo of her flesh, and the reverberations of their farewell, with all its doubts and pleasures. By Diana Gabaldon

Noisome liquid the bag had rested in. The rest stood on By Diana Gabaldon

To meet her fate beneath the rowan trees in the hills near By Diana Gabaldon

Marrying. Oh, God. Buoyed temporarily by port wine and cream lace, I had momentarily managed to ignore the significance of the occasion. By Diana Gabaldon

Will this be the end of it?''There is never an end to such things,' he said quietly. 'But we are alive. And that is good. By Diana Gabaldon

Who you jiving, L.J.? I heard Joe Abernathy's voice say, derisive and affectionate. I By Diana Gabaldon

He lounged in the corner like a crouching cat, watching me through eyes narrowed against the sun. By Diana Gabaldon

Sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often. By Diana Gabaldon

Never," he said, more softly. "For you are mine. My wife, my heart, my soul. By Diana Gabaldon

He radiated well-being like a potful of stew. By Diana Gabaldon

The removal of his infected adenoids and tonsils had not cured Keziah's deafness, but had improved it markedly. He By Diana Gabaldon

All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. By Diana Gabaldon

Hello, I said softly, one hand over the butterfly wings that beat inside me. By Diana Gabaldon

Amo, amas, I love a lass, As cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case, And she's o' the feminine gender. By Diana Gabaldon

Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you? By Diana Gabaldon

his weight pinning me to the bed. By Diana Gabaldon

Aye, I ken fine how strong women are," he said quietly. "And you're strong enough for what must be done, m' annsachd - believe me. By Diana Gabaldon

Stones of protection; amethyst, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and a male ruby. By Diana Gabaldon

It was a leap of faith - to throw one's heart across a gulf, and trust another to catch it. By Diana Gabaldon

But the years between now and then had been hard ones - and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance. By Diana Gabaldon

If ye have to ask yourself if you're in love, laddie - then ye aren't, By Diana Gabaldon

elbow. I had been without sleep for most of the last three days, By Diana Gabaldon

To dry the damp hem, and the firelight glowed from both my rings. A strong disposition to By Diana Gabaldon

Come to bed, a nighean. Nothing hurts when ye love me. He was right; nothing did. By Diana Gabaldon

Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking. By Diana Gabaldon

Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified. By Diana Gabaldon

The cold was somehow touched with life, a freshness moving through the icy air. By Diana Gabaldon

If either of them stops shouting long enough to hear the other, they'll be hurting each other's feelings. By Diana Gabaldon

Jamie's own face was lined with shadow, the firelight showing the mark of time and struggle on his flesh as wind and rain mark stone. By Diana Gabaldon

He was not afraid to die with her, by fire or any other way - only to live without her. By Diana Gabaldon

Time makes very little difference to the basic realities of life By Diana Gabaldon

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master ... and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own. By Diana Gabaldon

Or by death. She nodded. It was the strangest feeling. I was still half asleep, but By Diana Gabaldon

But what I do say is that there is nothing in this world or the next that can take ye from me - or me from you. By Diana Gabaldon

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

But bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails, aye?' He By Diana Gabaldon

And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire--- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. --Jamie By Diana Gabaldon

Gentle he would be, denied he would not. By Diana Gabaldon

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. By Diana Gabaldon

we might as well be afloat as earthbound, the heave and fall beneath me the rise of planking, and the sound of the pines the wind in our sails. By Diana Gabaldon

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. By Diana Gabaldon

left me studying the birds, with the assurance that he would shortly By Diana Gabaldon

He said the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions, which is right. By Diana Gabaldon

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

Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would ha' been a good deal easier if you'd only been a witch. By Diana Gabaldon

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you. By Diana Gabaldon

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

Turd-eating son of a flying tortoise By Diana Gabaldon

Good luck, Jamie," he said, voice a little husky. "God go with you. By Diana Gabaldon

Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime By Diana Gabaldon

Had no notion how much resemblance there was between what he was doing, and the original beliefs of the Iroquois, By Diana Gabaldon

There's a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. By Diana Gabaldon

Bein' cooped up indoors. The little finger waggled briefly. By Diana Gabaldon

Don't cry, Sassenach, he said, so softly I could barely hear him. By Diana Gabaldon

I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side. By Diana Gabaldon

The universe had shifted, with a small, decisive click; he could still hear its echo in his bones. By Diana Gabaldon

I marched into the shop and bought the vases. By Diana Gabaldon

Does it ever stop, Claire? The wanting? By Diana Gabaldon

Does it ever stop? The wanting you? By Diana Gabaldon

newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and By Diana Gabaldon

Nothing is lost ... only changed. By Diana Gabaldon

Getting up once in the dark to go adventuring is a lark. Twice in two days smacks of masochism. By Diana Gabaldon

Ye ken how to pick a good lass, MacKenzie? Start at the bottom and work your way up! By Diana Gabaldon

Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul By Diana Gabaldon

That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl By Diana Gabaldon

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed. By Diana Gabaldon

I felt at once horribly vulnerable and yet completely safe. By Diana Gabaldon

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

if ye bed wi' a vixen, ye must expect to get bit. By Diana Gabaldon

I dinna mean to interruupt ye, Sassenach" he whispered in my air. "But would ye like a bit of help we that? By Diana Gabaldon

Lord that she might be safe. She and my children. By Diana Gabaldon

Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now. By Diana Gabaldon

Aye, beg me for mercy, Sassenach. Ye shallna have it, though; not yet. By Diana Gabaldon

He'd told Jamie Fraser the truth - the whole bloody truth - and By Diana Gabaldon

Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man. By Diana Gabaldon

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. By Diana Gabaldon

Please," she said, "don't mention Jamie Fraser to my daughter. By Diana Gabaldon

That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie By Diana Gabaldon

I felt adrift, anchorless in a running sea. This is now my home. By Diana Gabaldon

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love. By Diana Gabaldon

This is why you use imagery when writing about sex; it's a means both of evoking immediacy and of distilling emotion. By Diana Gabaldon

The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination. Rain By Diana Gabaldon

A mark on one arm like the one I bore. Here, in this time, the mark of sorcery, the mark of a magus. The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination. By Diana Gabaldon

It's a wise man who kens the limits of his knowledge, Ian. By Diana Gabaldon

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!" -Claire By Diana Gabaldon

She was more like riding a sofa than a horse, with her broad back and sides curved like a hogshead of beer. By Diana Gabaldon

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither. By Diana Gabaldon

The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I. By Diana Gabaldon

Oh, well. There's a dance in the States, called the Shag. I gather I shouldn't ask you to do it with me here, though." "Not unless you mean it, By Diana Gabaldon

I do not understand men." That made him chuckle, deep in his chest. "Yes, ye do, Sassenach. Ye only wish ye didn't. By Diana Gabaldon

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. By Diana Gabaldon

I stood in front of him in nothing but my shoes and gartered rose-silk stockings. By Diana Gabaldon

Well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment? By Diana Gabaldon

For God's sake, be careful, Sassenach!" he muttered. "Dinna go near those things! By Diana Gabaldon

Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones! By Diana Gabaldon

Christ, was he going to die in public, in a pleasure garden, in the company of a sodomite spy dressed like a rooster? By Diana Gabaldon

A Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases, By Diana Gabaldon

Flames ... sprouting in the thatch like the tongues of the Holy Ghost, while the fire within roared its prayers for the damned. By Diana Gabaldon

I baptize thee, Germain Alexander Claudel MacKenzie Fraser, in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen. By Diana Gabaldon

Luceo Non Uro. 'I shine, not burn, By Diana Gabaldon

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

Exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood, By Diana Gabaldon

You cannot compel love," he said finally, "nor summon it at will. Still less," he added ruefully, "can you dismiss it. By Diana Gabaldon

I have been in perturbation of mind for days, debating whether I shall write it, and now, having written, whether to send it. By Diana Gabaldon

We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. By Diana Gabaldon

I may be out of bed, but I'm in no way equipped to conduct hypothetical conversations before I've had a cup of tea. By Diana Gabaldon

Jamie was real, alright, more real than anything had ever been to me, even Frank and my life in 1945. Jamie, tender lover and perfidious blackguard. By Diana Gabaldon

The eyes were steady, and told me no more than would my own, seen in a looking glass. By Diana Gabaldon

Restlessly, I moved around the surgery, picking things up and putting them down again. By Diana Gabaldon

I think sometimes the dead cherish us, as we do them, By Diana Gabaldon

While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. By Diana Gabaldon

Not that my watching out was likely to do a lot of good, I thought; every second man on the dock looked like an assassin to me. By Diana Gabaldon

How little you know of women, my love," I said. By Diana Gabaldon

The truth is always of use, madonna," he answered, eyes fixed on the slender stream. "It has the value of rarity, you know. By Diana Gabaldon

His hesitation. Is it a By Diana Gabaldon

Mmphm," he said. "Hell of a choice, there. A stick up the cock, or a finger up the backside, eh? By Diana Gabaldon

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song. By Diana Gabaldon

the medical way for a two-month voyage. By Diana Gabaldon

Hello, the house!" she By Diana Gabaldon

Ian - is that by chance Ian Murray?" Grey asked, but then answered himself. "I suppose it must be; how many Mohawks can there be named Ian? By Diana Gabaldon

Brianna?" he said, frowning at the pictures. "What an awful name for a wee lassie! By Diana Gabaldon

Do it, I thought, in an agony of apprehension. For God's sake, do it now and don't be gentle! By Diana Gabaldon

All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are. By Diana Gabaldon

My God, he thought, I'm going to die before I've been born. By Diana Gabaldon

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot - but not twice. By Diana Gabaldon

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

Murtagh was one of those men who always looked a bit startled to find that women had voices, but he nodded politely enough. By Diana Gabaldon

ONE DAY, COCK OF THE WALK - NEXT DAY, A FEATHER DUSTER By Diana Gabaldon

Do you encounter a great deal of ... factionalism in your area of the colony? By Diana Gabaldon

and garlic and strings of dried fish By Diana Gabaldon

I was born for you" -Claire Fraser, Outlander By Diana Gabaldon

A general cry of What book? What book? Let us see this famous book! By Diana Gabaldon

squeezed her heart. Claire murmured something, By Diana Gabaldon

I've said often enough, and the good Lord kens weel enough that boys were meant to be smacked, or he'd not ha' filled 'em sae full o' the de'il. By Diana Gabaldon

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. By Diana Gabaldon

If you can't look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it's there - take it out or change it. By Diana Gabaldon

Jealousy had nothing to do with logic. By Diana Gabaldon

Unspecified." I was amused. "So you have the proverbial horse thief in your By Diana Gabaldon

There is no more perfect stillness than the solitude in the heart of a snowstorm. By Diana Gabaldon

As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. By Diana Gabaldon

To take responsibility for the welfare of others made me feel less victimized by the whims of whatever impossible fate had brought me here, By Diana Gabaldon

Egg-sucking son of a porcupine! By Diana Gabaldon

What is it ye have there, Murtagh? By Diana Gabaldon

We will marry each other. By Diana Gabaldon

But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality. By Diana Gabaldon

Here and there, a form stirred feebly, victim of war's sorcery, struggling against the enchantment of death. By Diana Gabaldon

The Devil you ken is better than the Devil you don't. By Diana Gabaldon

Mm, you're nice to croodle wi', he murmured, doing what I assumed was croodling. By Diana Gabaldon

Do you have any idea how mortifying it is to have your own mother standing up in front of everybody, drawing pictures of penises? By Diana Gabaldon

Met with you." "Captain Randall said you were stealing cattle, By Diana Gabaldon

Arisaid. A night breeze brushed a strand of hair across my face. By Diana Gabaldon

sorrow and despair. All too many By Diana Gabaldon

Gave me terrible cramps, and I had wind for days. By Diana Gabaldon

Fighting was an exhausting business, and so was fear. By Diana Gabaldon

I like ye fat, Sassenach," he said softly. "Fat and juicy as a plump wee hen. I like it fine. By Diana Gabaldon

TWO DOWN," Roger whispered. By Diana Gabaldon

breeches and a rough smock By Diana Gabaldon

Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids By Diana Gabaldon

I found the rooted silence, rushing stream, and rustling leaves balm to the spirit. By Diana Gabaldon

You're tearin' my guts out, Claire. By Diana Gabaldon

Boston is by all Accounts a perfect Hellhole of republican Sentiment, By Diana Gabaldon

He wiped the sweat from his face on his sleeve, squared his shoulders, and strode back into the fray. All there was to do was his duty. By Diana Gabaldon

day's work, I drifted into sleep at once, soothed By Diana Gabaldon

I asked. I was quiet then, letting him come to terms with it. By Diana Gabaldon

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

Always, always, I had had to balance compassion with wisdom, love with judgment, humanity with ruthlessness. By Diana Gabaldon

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have. By Diana Gabaldon

of a musket ball embedded in his By Diana Gabaldon

Jamie ... I only want to be where you are. Nothing else. By Diana Gabaldon

Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. By Diana Gabaldon

head of the gangplank, she would drop the goat By Diana Gabaldon

Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last. By Diana Gabaldon

got the disks from. By Diana Gabaldon

Don't be afraid," he whispered into my hair. "There's the two of us now. By Diana Gabaldon

Could it be possible that he really did have enough imagination to be able to grasp the truth? By Diana Gabaldon

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician. By Diana Gabaldon

I was hopeful of his answer, or fearful of it. The answer was a slight shrug. By Diana Gabaldon

I was older, heavier, and completely berserk. By Diana Gabaldon

Chin - and there it was. I near beshit myself. By Diana Gabaldon

Though I could wish your own limits went a bit further. By Diana Gabaldon

Means of dealing with the Three Furies before they drove her crazy or assassinated each other with rolling pin or knitting needle. By Diana Gabaldon

respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior, By Diana Gabaldon

Then ye live with it, laddie," he said softly. "That's all. By Diana Gabaldon

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be. By Diana Gabaldon

so he died, at the conclusion of an eminently useful life, and thus obtained his crown in Paradise. By Diana Gabaldon

box with me, so there was little I could By Diana Gabaldon

I am, madam, Jonathan Randall, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's Eighth Dragoons. At your service, madam. By Diana Gabaldon

Well, legends are many-legged beasties, aye? But they generally have at least one foot on the truth. By Diana Gabaldon

To fight disease without medicine is to push against a shadow; a darkness that spreads as inexorably as night. By Diana Gabaldon

He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness. By Diana Gabaldon

Balefully at his figures, rumpling a hand through his By Diana Gabaldon

Not a hothouse flower, this daughter of Leoch, despite her surroundings. By Diana Gabaldon

people so often seemed not only willing but eager to believe the worst - and the worse, the better. By Diana Gabaldon

Her entrance was greeted by a general outcry of cordiality that made her mildly ashamed of her cynicism. By Diana Gabaldon

So I reached down into my workbasket, took my wee knife from its sheath, and went for his balls, By Diana Gabaldon

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence. By Diana Gabaldon

More than most men, he valued his name-I only hoped that given time, it would once more have value. By Diana Gabaldon

Often the best tool is the most dangerous. One doesn't hesitate to use it on that account; one merely makes sure to take adequate precautions. By Diana Gabaldon

If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense. By Diana Gabaldon

Testosterone poisoning, By Diana Gabaldon

Until we two be burned to ashes. By Diana Gabaldon

I knew an old lady in the Highlands once, who said the lines in your hand don't predict your life; they reflect it. By Diana Gabaldon

by the cook, with a list of By Diana Gabaldon

At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist. By Diana Gabaldon

I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn't know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost. By Diana Gabaldon

I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone's weakness? Can I not have my own? By Diana Gabaldon

Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew? By Diana Gabaldon

English dragoons By Diana Gabaldon

She supposed that it it perhaps not fair to quarrel with someone on the basis of what you thought they were thinking By Diana Gabaldon

The Bible says, "Seek, and ye shall find," he thought. And said aloud to the vibrant air, "But there's no guarantee about what you'll find, is there? By Diana Gabaldon

And tacksmen pay the Watch to keep an By Diana Gabaldon

If I'd known I should meet a damn bear, Jamie said, grunting as he lifted another stone into place, I would have taken another path. By Diana Gabaldon

The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy By Diana Gabaldon

Thought of blowing your brains out?"William blinked, startled."No.""That's good. Anything else is bound to be an improvement, isn't it? By Diana Gabaldon

The world and each day in it is a gift, mo chridhe - no matter what tomorrow may be. By Diana Gabaldon

astutely observes that a Man's sense of By Diana Gabaldon

Do me the one favor, Sassenach," he said, draping the heavy velvet over my shoulders. "Take a larger fan. By Diana Gabaldon

In bed," she said calmly. "I want you to come to bed with me. By Diana Gabaldon

Then came an evil wind, that blew the seeds of misfortune into my garden. By Diana Gabaldon

But we do not fear silence, for often God speaks loudest in the quiet of our hearts. And By Diana Gabaldon

Damn you, Sassenach!" his voice said, from a very great distance. His voice was choked with passion. "Dam you! I swear if ye die on me, I'll kill you! By Diana Gabaldon

You're beautiful to me, Jamie," I said softly, at last. "So beautiful, you break my heart. By Diana Gabaldon

Fraser nodded casually toward Twelvetrees. Is there anything ye want me to beat out of him? By Diana Gabaldon

No man is really at his best with someone else's hand up his arse. By Diana Gabaldon

And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well! By Diana Gabaldon

thought to tell me before departing, By Diana Gabaldon

And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which He has placed me. By Diana Gabaldon

The night was cold, and very quiet, as though we were the only two souls in the world. By Diana Gabaldon

Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred, and a Thousand more. By Diana Gabaldon

What I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become. By Diana Gabaldon

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here. By Diana Gabaldon

He who throws dirt is losing ground, By Diana Gabaldon

I hadn't spent so much time in bemused contemplation of a penis since I was sixteen or so, and here I was, preoccupied with three of the things. By Diana Gabaldon

It's only when ye ken ye can say no that it takes courage. By Diana Gabaldon

For a dispossessed outlaw and a suspected English spy, our services seemed to be rather in demand. By Diana Gabaldon

What, she's taken the hairs off her honeypot?" he said, horrified into uncharacteristic vulgarity. By Diana Gabaldon

He choked, laughed in a shocked way, wept a little more, By Diana Gabaldon

I've yet to see the auld woman believes in witches, nor the young one, neither. It's men think there must be ill-wishes and magic in women, By Diana Gabaldon

into a wolf?" The wary dislike stamped By Diana Gabaldon

It's strange," he said, "when he was alive, I didna pay him much heed. But once he was dead, the things he'd told me had a good deal more influence. By Diana Gabaldon

the long, straight nose and firm chin By Diana Gabaldon

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,' " I intoned, " 'when first we practice to deceive.' By Diana Gabaldon

I didna say I wanted an apology, did I? If I recall aright, what I said was 'Bite me again. By Diana Gabaldon

Solitude was in its own way a balm for loneliness. By Diana Gabaldon

She was ten when our mother died, Jenny By Diana Gabaldon

I had seen even well-established marriages shatter under the strain of smaller things. And those that did not shatter, but were crippled by mistrust By Diana Gabaldon

Being in a state of grace is all very well, but I imagine even Joan of Arc had qualms when they lit the first brand. By Diana Gabaldon

Dangerous thing, infatuation. By Diana Gabaldon

lie first wi' you was as generous By Diana Gabaldon

The ancient savagery that men call motherhood, who mistake its tenderness for weakness. By Diana Gabaldon

People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists. By Diana Gabaldon

Frenchman wouldn't seem so dangerous to them. Perhaps. He blinked hard to clear his vision, and was opening his mouth By Diana Gabaldon

His hairline. Luckily, the arrival of the salmagundi By Diana Gabaldon

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

After all, who's going to look after all the sick folk, if your grannie's lying about in pieces?" F By Diana Gabaldon

Drunk wi' power," he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. "Verra unwomanly attitude, that. By Diana Gabaldon

You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it's better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones. By Diana Gabaldon

I am a warrior, that my son may be a merchant - and his son may be a poet. By Diana Gabaldon

And a long time," he said. "I am a jealous man, but not a vengeful one. I would take you from him, my Sassenach - but I wouldna take him from you. By Diana Gabaldon

conversation turned ineluctably toward By Diana Gabaldon

It's a sword, aye? Not a bloody club. Use the tip! By Diana Gabaldon

That lovely cool face told him nothing. By Diana Gabaldon

Have you anything to say to me now, Madam?" he demanded. "Your wig is crooked," I said, and closed my eyes again. By Diana Gabaldon

My first coherent thought was, It's raining. This must be Scotland. By Diana Gabaldon

Here's tae us. Wha's like us?" "Damned few," she replied in broad Scots, "and they're all deid. By Diana Gabaldon

Dear God," he said, still softly. "I couldna look at ye, Sassenach, and keep my hands from you, nor have ye near me, and not want ye. By Diana Gabaldon

But the future reaches out to us, as does the past, and all times are the present. By Diana Gabaldon

Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. 'The grave's a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace. By Diana Gabaldon

If ye can stand up, you're not drunk. By Diana Gabaldon

Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil? By Diana Gabaldon

Jamie, have you ever done something for yourself alone - not with any thought of anyone else? By Diana Gabaldon

That's right," she said softly, watching. "It's not everyone can go through the stones, is it? Why us? By Diana Gabaldon

Feelings aren't truth, By Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable. By Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world. By Diana Gabaldon

Who needed the relief of occasional bad language more than a mother of small children? Maybe By Diana Gabaldon

No, sir. Now that his lordship is here, though, we can proceed. I'll tell Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart; he's to chair the proceeding. By Diana Gabaldon

He laughed. "Yeah, all right, I see," she said. "Mmm. Why did you have to mention tomatoes? I used the last of the dried ones last week, and By Diana Gabaldon

Damn ye, woman! Will ye never do as you're told?" "Probably not," I said meekly. By Diana Gabaldon

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

The law's a necessary evilwe canna be doing without itbut do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience? By Diana Gabaldon

Remained on hands and knees, eyes narrowed thoughtfully, By Diana Gabaldon

Late. He narrowed his eyes at William. "She is ... under my protection," William said, as firmly By Diana Gabaldon

I canna think why the good Lord should waste hair like that on a man. By Diana Gabaldon

panes in an attempt to get a better look at By Diana Gabaldon

he was saying was By Diana Gabaldon

It was what you did when someone died; turned toward God and at least acknowledge the fact. By Diana Gabaldon

Do you know where Laoghaire is? By Diana Gabaldon

Feel my heart," he said. His voice sounded thick to his own ears. "Tell me if it stops. By Diana Gabaldon

Why d'ye talk to yourself?" "It assures me of a good listener, By Diana Gabaldon

Dinna be afraid. There's the two of us now. By Diana Gabaldon

Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy. By Diana Gabaldon

Claire knew the flavor of solitude. It was cold as spring water, and not all could drink it; for some it was not refreshment, but mortal chill. By Diana Gabaldon

He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical questions. By Diana Gabaldon

We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you. By Diana Gabaldon

Shove that filthy spike By Diana Gabaldon

a redheaded person with an empty stomach was a walking time bomb. I By Diana Gabaldon

While most people became irritable when hungry, a redheaded person with an empty stomach was a walking time bomb. By Diana Gabaldon

Some nights, he even slept. By Diana Gabaldon

I think there are times for men of peace - and a time for men of blood, as well. By Diana Gabaldon

Your son is a drunkard," she informed him. Then she caught a whiff of Roger's breath. "Following in his father's footsteps, I see," she added coldly. By Diana Gabaldon

As usual in such matters, God's sense of humor trumped all imagination. By Diana Gabaldon

Well, that's the hell of it, isn't it?" she said, turning away. "You never know, but you have to act anyway, don't you? By Diana Gabaldon

Thee is my wolf," she'd said to him. "And if thee hunts at night, thee will come home." "And sleep at thy feet," he'd replied. By Diana Gabaldon

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time By Diana Gabaldon

Turned me away from him and fitted himself to my back so we lay nested together. By Diana Gabaldon

in her voice that By Diana Gabaldon

could murder a plateful of eggs. By Diana Gabaldon

Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way ... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man. By Diana Gabaldon

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

from clients for the safeguarding of By Diana Gabaldon

Some hae meat that canna eat, And some could eat that want it. We hae meat, and we can eat, And so may God be thankit. Amen. By Diana Gabaldon

It is easier to kill someone to save your own life than it is to hurt someone to save theirs. By Diana Gabaldon

But, like many ideas, that one was more appealing in concept than in execution By Diana Gabaldon

Jamie, my dearie," his sister said sweetly. "D'ye By Diana Gabaldon

They're girls," she replied briefly. "They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance. By Diana Gabaldon

It took a bit more argument, but at last she consented, By Diana Gabaldon

fortunately it came out as a mere breath of sound. Another body turned over, rustling, By Diana Gabaldon

Dinna fash yourself, Sassenach. Ye canna say more than ye know, but tell me it all, just once more. By Diana Gabaldon

He was pressing himself against the wall as though trying to get through it by osmosis. By Diana Gabaldon

To fight on the winning side was one thing; to survive, quite another. By Diana Gabaldon

Well, and he supposed a duel with a drunken midget was as good a test as any. By Diana Gabaldon

Kitchen window. Scairt the chickens out o' the yard," he added, with a feeble grin. "Less about chickens, Young Ian," I said, looking By Diana Gabaldon

Christ! Ye scairt the bowels out of me. By Diana Gabaldon

Hurley, hurley, round the table,Eat as muckle as ye're able.Eat muckle, pooch nane,Hurley, hurley, Amen. By Diana Gabaldon

Jemmy won't get to go to Disneyland - but he'll have that. A family that laughs - and millions of little lights in the trees. By Diana Gabaldon

There were some chains you wore because you wanted to. By Diana Gabaldon

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. By Diana Gabaldon

I estimated the ambient humidity at roughly a thousand percent, but tipped a little of my sweetened coffee into the saucer and blew on it nonetheless. By Diana Gabaldon

How was yer first time, Jamie? Did ye bleed? shouted Rupert By Diana Gabaldon

came a day when the food By Diana Gabaldon

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live. By Diana Gabaldon

the fragrant bunches of nettle and dried lavender overhead, dusty gold By Diana Gabaldon

Stop it! It's too big! Take it out! By Diana Gabaldon

A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing. By Diana Gabaldon

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

Robbie," Jamie assured him. "What's to do, then?" McGillivray, who By Diana Gabaldon

The power and the danger of magic lie in the people who believe it. By Diana Gabaldon

A well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, By Diana Gabaldon

thinking I meant to snatch this treat for myself, but I pushed By Diana Gabaldon

There is nothing more delightful in life than a feather bed and an open fire - except a feather bed with a warm and tender lover in it. By Diana Gabaldon

Mr. Farquard Campbell, the butler said quietly, and stood back against the wall. By Diana Gabaldon

You - shoot him, can't you?" Jamie shrugged and, lifting the rifle to By Diana Gabaldon

Freedom and Whisky gang tegither. By Diana Gabaldon

Splat. This one showed By Diana Gabaldon

So ye've come back to him," he said happily. "God, that's romantic! By Diana Gabaldon

I'll thank ye," said a cool, level voice, "to take your hands off my wife. By Diana Gabaldon

Never give anything away for free - but sometimes it pays to oil the wheels a bit. By Diana Gabaldon

Make a difference? An instant's panic, as she tried to visualize By Diana Gabaldon

His own eyes were soft and dreamy, cloudy as a trout pool in the rain. By Diana Gabaldon

If there's true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. By Diana Gabaldon

I only said I felt like God, Sassenach," he murmured. "I never said I was. By Diana Gabaldon

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it. By Diana Gabaldon

she keeps takin' me in - so I suppose she must be home. By Diana Gabaldon

he looked up at once when By Diana Gabaldon

I would have liked to know what Emily Post had to recommend in a situation like this, but as Miss Post wasn't present, I was forced to improvise. By Diana Gabaldon

That's simple. You reason with them, and when you're through, I'll take them out and thrash them. By Diana Gabaldon

She was a very old lady indeed, or at least she looked it. She leaned on a hawthorn stick, enveloped in garments she must have By Diana Gabaldon

Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. By Diana Gabaldon

When had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial? By Diana Gabaldon

Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach," he said, his speech measured and precise, "I will take later, every time. By Diana Gabaldon

You've not been sleeping proper," Byrd said accusingly. "I can tell. You've been a-wallowing on your pillow; your hair's a right rat's nest! By Diana Gabaldon

The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them. By Diana Gabaldon

Incongruous that he laughed. And then realized that there By Diana Gabaldon

Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things. By Diana Gabaldon

of grass, watching the By Diana Gabaldon

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade? By Diana Gabaldon

Maybe it was the result of gardening, that quiet sense of pleasure in touching growing things, the satisfaction of helping them thrive. By Diana Gabaldon

Woodbine took the note away, revealing the paper beneath: By Diana Gabaldon

But even the thickest walls have doors. By Diana Gabaldon

Queen's knight," he said quietly. "To queen two." It was, he knew, a dangerous opening. By Diana Gabaldon

No, blast it! I can't even shoot the bastard, without dishonoring my brother's sworn word! By Diana Gabaldon

Do you know how rare such a thing is?" he asked quietly. "That peculiar sort of mutual passion?" The one-sided kind was common enough. By Diana Gabaldon

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. By Diana Gabaldon

he often escorted the women, as By Diana Gabaldon

He wasn't going to pretend it hadn't hurt to hear it, but he wouldn't let himself be angry; that would help neither of them. By Diana Gabaldon

A fine coaching inn there - though not much else. Dougal looked surprised By Diana Gabaldon

Catholics don't believe in divorce," Bree had informed him once. "We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. By Diana Gabaldon

Venemous," Jamie corrected him. "If it bites you and makes ye sick, it's venemous; if you bite it and it makes ye sick, it's poisonous. By Diana Gabaldon

wooden mug I had ready, half filled with By Diana Gabaldon

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

Sometimes a shadow rises, and death lies nameless in the dark. By Diana Gabaldon

He shook his head slowly from side to side, as though it were very heavy. I could almost hear the contents sloshing. By Diana Gabaldon

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

On Roger's jacket. Claire sat in the stern, blinking, but still By Diana Gabaldon

I could know ye all my life, I think, and always love you. By Diana Gabaldon

Marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it. By Diana Gabaldon

But for the hours of the night, I was helpless; powerless to move as a dragonfly in amber. By Diana Gabaldon