Diana Gabaldon Short Quotes

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

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Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

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

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Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary.

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A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

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Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I wouldn't cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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