Diana Gabaldon Quotes

Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty.

I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...

For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I've be...

Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of t...

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a ...

Why?" I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against hi...

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that ...

I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog biscu...

But it wouldn’t have half the power of a story in which Jamie and Claire truly conquer real evil and...

You don’t need to know the purpose as you write, but when you read over something you’ve written, yo...

Dialogue doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up o...

You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it’s better to use sensual deta...

Okay. This has to be a credible threat. Ergo, we have to have seen (and heard about) the real damage...

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

Watch a good movie sometime without reference to what’s happening but only with attention to how it ...

Don’t let characters talk pointlessly—they only talk if there’s something to say.

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

Don’t go overboard in avoiding “said.” Basically, “said” is the default for dialogue, and a good thi...

To some extent, emotions are universal and can be treated that way; no matter what the participants’...

If you can’t look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it’s there—take it out or chang...

Just as an effective advertisement or page layout includes a lot of white space, a powerful scene re...

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

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

Men have external genitalia, while women have internal genitalia. This simple difference makes a lot...

You forget the life you had before, after awhile. Things you cherish and hold dear are like pearls o...

For a different woman, a different relationship, a different situation, gentleness might have been t...

One of the general patterns of good (i.e., striking and memorable) writing is the effect of repetiti...

There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will ma...

Jamie’s viewpoint is expressed almost entirely in metaphor: If she was broken, she would slash him w...

If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it.

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

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

That dog is a wolf, is he not?''Aye, well, mostly.'A small flash of hazel told him not to quibble.'A...

Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."You do remember your f...

Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comfor...

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

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

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

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is n...

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

God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me i...

Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. 'The grave's a fine and pr...

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

Do you really think we'll ever--""I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned ov...

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

#Outlander QOTD Claire and Master Raymond.Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been...

Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been staring, I blushed and said without think...

Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an eveni...

Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and...

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

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. ...

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the wor...

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

Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly ho...

Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna...

For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn ret...

...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-le...

I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye lik...

Not the historians. No, not them. Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, h...

I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgator...

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean so...

But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupp...

I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'...

No. Ye loved him. I canna hold it against either of you that ye mourn him. And it gives me some comf...

And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for...

During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younge...

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thi...

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve...

It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped i...

I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe...

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

Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled...

Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit c...

Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed.""That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping m...

Now, me lord, you know you oughtn’t talk like that at this hour of the morning. Yougot to pardon his...

I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sl...

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul ...

Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. ...

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and suppl...

There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to s...

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

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without ...

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

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not...

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim pl...

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylight...

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

When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...

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 ...

But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look a...

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soun...

I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sl...

I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance...

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

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

Jamie reached across and took my right hand in his, his fingers linking with mine, and the silver of...

For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “I di...

Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart."Come to me. Cover me. Shelter ...