Diana Gabaldon Quotes
“…… what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.”
Source: The Fiery Cross
“Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.”
Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Source: The Scottish Prisoner
“I only said I felt like God, Sassenach," he murmured. "I never said I was.”
Source: Outlander
“The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.”
Source: The Fiery Cross
Source: Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.”
Source: Outlander
Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Variant: 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?
Source: Drums of Autumn
“It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.”
Variant: Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would ha’ been a good deal easier if you’d only been a witch.
Source: The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel
“You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.”
Source: Dragonfly in Amber
“Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?”
Source: Dragonfly in Amber
Variant: That's not precisely what I had in mind."
Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.
Source: Outlander
On balancing novel writing with her personal life in “Diana Gabaldon on Her ‘Outlander’ Writing Process & Knowing Sam Heughan Was Jamie” https://collider.com/diana-gabaldon-outlander-interview/ in Collider (2018 Aug 2)
On how library research helps her write accurately in “Caught Between Two Worlds – Diana Gabaldon Interview” https://www.scotsmagazine.com/articles/diana-gabaldon-outlander-inspiration/ in The Scots Magazine (2018 Mar 2)
On how she conjures an erotic scene in her writing in “Outlander Author Diana Gabaldon on Her Two Rules for Writing a Good Sex Scene” https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a24146013/outlander-diana-gabaldon-interview-great-american-read in Town and Country (2018 Oct 24)
On what inspired her to write a historical novel in “Caught Between Two Worlds – Diana Gabaldon Interview” https://www.scotsmagazine.com/articles/diana-gabaldon-outlander-inspiration/ in The Scots Magazine (2018 Mar 2)
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