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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c5a36f3 | This is the grimoire of the witch, Geillis. It is a witch's name, and I take it for my own; what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become. And | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 2ed18f0 | 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. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5730ee4 | the chill. Grant's nose was | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1d1a73c | Still, when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial? Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f7ecc01 | The phrase "Blessed are those who have not seen but have believed" floated through his head. It was maybe not the believing that was the blessing; it was the not having to look. Seeing, sometimes, was bloody awful." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c68e88b | When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 3f482c6 | The dog would run a few steps toward the house, circle once or twice as though unable to decide what to do next, then run back into the wood, turn, and run again toward the house, all the while whining with agitation, tail low and wavering. "Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ," I said. "Bloody Timmy's in the well!" I" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| cbbdbc2 | And that, ma chere madame, is all I can tell you--no more than I can tell any troubled soul who comes to me for advice: put your trust in God, and pray for guidance." He shoved the fresh pastry toward me. "But whatever you are to do, you will" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ded5432 | 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." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 056aeb9 | To create, to hoard, to send these things, these fragile documents, down through the years, with only the hope that they would survive and reach those for whom they were intended. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4858c0c | It's a rare plant," he said, touching the sprig in my open hand. "Flowers, fruit and leaves all together at the one time. The white flowers are for honor, and red fruit for courage--and the green leaves are for constancy." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1c66dd2 | massive edifice, with its impenetrable walls, its monumental gate, and its red-coated guards, I began to have doubts. "What" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| cccf95c | that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconscious knowing. A | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9ea96dd | have always kent what it is to love a man--be he husband or brother, lover or son. A dangerous business; that's what it is. Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are--or for not coming back. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 793325f | A sadist with a sense of humor was particularly dangerous. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1448243 | I couldn't think how long it had been since I had read a novel. And in the daytime! Feeling pleasantly wicked, I sat by the open window in my surgery and resolutely entered a world far from my own. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 2e8d6b6 | I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7d08934 | Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comforted by the realization that, in fact, he never left. | self-knowledge | Diana Gabaldon | |
| f5f2a7b | Looking down on the assembly, standing patiently in the drizzle awaiting a verdict, I suddenly had a vivid understanding of something. Like so many, I had heard, appalled, the reports that trickled out of postwar Germany; the stories of deportations and mass murder, of concentration camps and burnings. And like so many others had done, and would do, for years to come, I had asked myself, "How could the people have let it happen? They must h.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a0e09f9 | thought that was perhaps how some ghosts were made; where a will and a purpose had survived, heedless of the frail flesh that fell by the wayside, unable to sustain life long enough. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d3849bc | Please," she said, "don't mention Jamie Fraser to my daughter." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e069852 | Indeed," Jamie said politely. "I believe that was the Crown's notion in executing my grandsire on Tower Hill after the Rising. Verra effective, too; all my relations have been quite well behaved since." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 45d14f3 | Sometimes our best actions result in things that are most regrettable. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4da5e6e | You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart--and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1c08c21 | A forced oath canna bind a man, though, or keep him from his knowledge of right. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ce5bca9 | People are gregarious by necessity. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e7abf01 | Pleasure?" Her voice rose behind me, incredulous. "Ye mean some women like it?" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 375abdf | But to return to thy question, we consider our life here on earth to be a sacrament, lived in the light of Christ. There may be an afterlife, but as no one has come back to say so, it's a matter of speculation, left to each person individually. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9cae01f | While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl's heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish parents, such as property, income, a left hand, and a last name. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 67678d6 | Rain was roaring on the tin roof now, and lightning struck close by, blue-white and sharp with ozone. We rode it together, forked and light-blind, breathless, and the thunder rolled through our bones. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f4ab6d4 | the hardening spreads from the center, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until "I am" is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1624c2a | Aye, lass, courage like that is uncommon rare. It wasna ignorance, mind; he'd just seen two men flogged and he knew the same was coming to him. It's just he had made up his mind there was no help for it. Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way for a Scotsman, ye ken, but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 126cb7a | said. "And how is Oggy today?" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| cf70238 | I think perhaps the greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c702071 | Respectability had its uses. I wondered idly how many spymasters had thought of using elderly ladies? You didn't hear about old women as spies--but then again, that might merely indicate how good they were at it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8eefb55 | I have noticed," she said slowly, "that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4a8b5ba | still fine | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c97585c | L'amore per un figlio non puo essere libero: sin dai primi segni di movimento nell'utero germoglia in noi una devozione tanto potente quanto viscerale, irresistibile come l'atto stesso della nascita. Ma, per quanto potente esso sia, si tratta pur sempre di un amore fatto di controllo; si diventa guardiani, protettori, custodi: c'e tantissima passione in questo, certo, ma mai abbandono. Avevo sempre, sempre dovuto bilanciare la compassione c.. | jamie-fraser life love | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 1a18d4c | I had no need to ask or to wonder whether he would keep his word. He had freed me once from Wentworth, because he had given his word to do so. His word, once given, was his bond. Jack Randall was a gentleman. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d6a5e63 | Would it be better if I'd had daughters?" she asked the mirror, in apparent earnestness. "No," she answered herself. "They'd only marry men, and there you are." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e63e6f6 | 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. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 973501f | Pointless to spend too much time in planning, anyway, given the propensity of life to make sudden left-hand turns without warning. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| aaa8b20 | What . . . fellow?" The wind was cool, but I could see sweat trickling down the back of Jamie's neck, dampening his collar and plastering the linen between his shoulders. Duff didn't answer immediately. A look of speculation flickered in his small, deep-set eyes. "Don't think about it, Duff," Roger said, softly, but with great assurance. "I can reach ye from here with an oar, ken?" "Aye?" Duff glanced thoughtfully from Jamie, to Roger, and .. | clever drown drowning gun jamie-fraser roger-mackenzie seasick seasickness threat threatening threats | Diana Gabaldon | |
| b919709 | The tooth had belonged to a gentleman named Murphy from Ellis Ward, the one we lived in. I say "had belonged" because I had the badly broken and infected bicuspid out of Mr. Murphy's head before he could have said Jack Robinson, though he was in such pain that he could barely recall his own name, let alone Jack's. Mr." | Diana Gabaldon |