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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3761c03 | Besides, what would you do with the body, if you killed him? the logical side of my mind inquired. He wouldn't fit in the cupboard, let alone the hidey-hole. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8a1613e |
Te imaginas? --murmuro en algun momento de la madrugada--. ?Sabes lo duro que es estar asi con alguien y no encontrar jamas su secreto? --Si --respondi pensando en Frank--. Lo se. --Lo suponia. --Me toco el pelo--. Y de pronto... recuperar la seguridad. Decir y hacer lo que quieras, sabiendo que es lo correcto. --Decir < |
romance-love series-romance | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 7bd546a | I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn't know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0034d35 | Do not forget to entertain strangers," Buck said in the same language, "for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 047d2f5 | All right," I said, waving the cup away and dabbing moisture very carefully from my lips. "I'm fine." I breathed shallowly, feeling my heart begin to slow down. "Well. So. At least now I know why you've been coming back from the Cherokee villages in such a state of-- of--" I felt an unhinged giggle rising, and bent over, moaning as I stifled it. "Oh, Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ. And here I thought it was thoughts of me, driving you mad with .. | clairefraser gabaldon jamiefraser love outlander | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 3ceb1af | 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." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 365ba63 | The weather was still cold, but I was not. The blood thrummed near the surface of my skin, and I felt heat rise in my palms. I reached a hand out to the pine that stood by me, drops of water trembling on each needle, its bark black with wet. I breathed its scent and let the water touch my skin, cool as vapor. The rain fell in shushing stillness all around me, dampening my clothes 'til they clung to me softly, like clouds upon the mountain. .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e39c901 | But the years between now and then had been hard ones--and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 523ce19 | Sleep, O sleep in the calm of all calm, Sleep, O sleep in the guidance of guidance, Sleep, O sleep in the love of all loves, Sleep, O beloved, in the Lord of life, Sleep, O beloved, in the God of life! It | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a30f777 | Not everyone who goes through the stones comes out again." His look sharpened. "How d'ye ken that, Sassenach?" "I can--I could--hear them. Screaming." I" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 195f8e8 | Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes. | death illness usefulness useless | Diana Gabaldon | |
| efdf2af | It was very quiet here on the mountainside, but, quiet in the of hills and forests. A quiet that wasn't silent at all, but composed of constant tiny sounds. It was small buzzing in the gorse bush nearby, of bees working the yellow flowers -dusty with pollen, far below was the rushing of the burn, a low note echoing the wind above stirring leaves and rattling twigs sighing past the jutting boulders. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 408031b | I don't know how long it went on," he continued. "Not that long, likely, but it seemed like a long time to me. At last he stopped a moment and shouted at me. He was beside himself wi' fury, and I was so furious myself I could barely make out what he said at first but then I could. He roared 'Damn you, Jamie! Can ye no cry out? You're grown now, and I dinna mean to beat you ever again, but I want one good yelp out of ye, lad, before I quit, .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8b3576f | I had realized many years before why "patients" are called that; it's because a sick person is generally incapacitated, and thus obliged to put up with any amount of harassment and annoyance from persons who are not sick." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 561512b | Er ... what is the current rate of taxation, do you think?" I asked, tactfully drawing attention away from Stanhope's spluttering. Wylie pursed his lips, considering. A dandy, he wore the latest in modish wigs, and a small patch in the shape of a star beside his mouth. Under the powder, though, I thought I detected both a good-looking face and a very shrewd brain. "Oh, considering all incidentals, I should say it can amount to as much as tw.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ccc3715 | Next time I marry someone, I'll pick a lass who wakes up cheerful in the morning, | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 2f2350e | 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. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 75d7241 | Money is a good bridle, but a weak rein. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| dcfbf46 | It doesna matter how many things ye do on a farm, there's always more than ye can do. A wonder the place doesna rise up about my ears and swallow me, like Jonah and the whale. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7980179 | The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ed1dd00 | I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which He has placed me. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 354d9bb | 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. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| daea9ae | the greylag mate for life? If ye kill a grown goose, hunting, ye must always wait, for the mate will come to mourn. Then ye must try to kill the second, too, for otherwise it will grieve itself to death, calling through the skies for the lost one. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c375de7 | Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like," he said, "but God made hope. The stars willna burn out." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4bee615 | I was crying for joy, my Sassenach," he said softly. He reached out slowly and took my face between his hands. "And thanking God that I have two hands. That I have two hands to hold you with. To serve you with, to love you with. Thanking God that I am a whole man still, because of you." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7cebd84 | We believe the light of Christ is present in all men--though in some cases, perceiving it is somewhat difficult, | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9c801b4 | I felt at once horribly vulnerable and yet completely safe. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| dc6ad09 | People are gregarious by necessity. Since the days of the first cave dwellers, humans--hairless, weak, and helpless save for cunning--have survived by joining together in groups; knowing, as so many other edible creatures have found, that there is protection in numbers. And that knowledge, bred in the bone, is what lies behind mob rule. Because to step outside the group, let alone to stand against it, was for uncounted thousands of years de.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e762116 | Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger--and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation. I surely wasn't. Ian | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| dfa611a | I am a Highlander," Jamie said bleakly. He glanced once more at the far bank, where occasional glimpses of tartan showed through the mist, and then back. The shouting echoed from the fog. "And I am the sire of Americans." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b49df34 | Those who are led of the spirit to follow a different path, let us say," she said, a little tersely. "And, no, they wouldn't. But the point I am making is that when such a group breaks away over some point of doctrine, they are inclined to cling even more rigorously to the rest of their beliefs and be more fierce even than the original group." Ian" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9cd3571 | There is a great difference between those phenomena which are accepted on faith, and those which are proved by objective determination, though the cause of both may be equally 'rational' once known. And the chief difference is this: that people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced--while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither s.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 2b2db20 | The long lids of her eyes closed halfway, like a basking cat's, but the smile remained on that wide, soft mouth--those lips that hurt, then healed. The light glowed in her skin, bronzed the tiny brown mole beneath her right ear. He could have watched her forever, but the match was burning low. Just before the flame touched his fingers, she leaned forward and blew it out. And in the smoke-wisped dark, whispered in his ear, "The heart of her .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 2de4447 | Everyone makes choices, and no one knows what may be the end of any of them. If my own was to blame for many things, it was not to blame for everything. Nor was harm all that had come of it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f4e4106 | Mmphm," he said. "Hell of a choice, there. A stick up the cock, or a finger up the backside, eh?" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5664869 | Ci sono cose che io non posso dire a te, almeno non ancora. E non insistero affinche tu mi riveli i tuoi segreti. Pero ti chiedo questo: quando mi dici qualcosa, fa che sia la verita. E io ti prometto di fare lo stesso. Tra noi per ora non c'e nulla, tranne...il rispetto, forse. E penso che nel rispetto possa esserci spazio per i segreti, ma non per le bugie. Sei d'accordo? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ce9d0f0 | But when I lay wi' Emily--from the first time. I knew. Kent who I was again." He looked up at her then, eyes dark and shadowed by loss. "My soul didna wander while I slept--when I slept wi' her." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 119f857 | Toi d'abord. - Non, toi. - Pourquoi ? - J'ai peur. - Peur de quoi Sassenach ? - De ne plus pouvoir m'arreter de le dire. Il lanca un regard vers la ligne d'horizon ou se levait la faucille de la lune. - C'est bientot l'hiver et les nuits rallongent, mo duinne. Serree contre lui, je sentais son coeur battre. - Je t'aime. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| fbd9170 | Now is the time when we reenter the womb of the world, dreaming the dreams of snow and silence. Waking to the shock of frozen lakes under waning moonlight and the cold sun burning low and blue in the branches of the ice-cased trees, returning from our brief and necessary labors to food and story, to the warmth of firelight in the dark. Around a fire, in the dark, all truths can be told, and heard, in safety. I pulled on my woolen stockings,.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5940603 | can tell you that nobody knows what being married's going to be like until you find yourself in the midst of it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ab15690 | There were moments, of course. Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 04a6265 | Still, as the Mass went on, things seemed more normal; there were Bible readings, quite familiar, and then the accustomed descent into the vaguely pleasant boredom of a sermon, in which the inevitable Christmas annunciations of "peace," "goodwill," and "love" rose to the surface of his mind, tranquil as white lilies floating on a pond of words." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 24f67c0 | If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth," his adoptive father had told him once. "You may not know what it is, mind," he'd added with a smile. "But it's there." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 098f182 | Dinna be afraid. There's the two of us now. | Diana Gabaldon |