Diana Gabaldon citations

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“Toi d'abord.
- Non, toi.
- Pourquoi?
- J'ai peur.
- Peur de quoi Sassenach?
- De ne plus pouvoir m'arrêter de le dire.
Il lança un regard vers la ligne d'horizon où se levait la faucille de la lune.
- C'est bientôt l'hiver et les nuits rallongent, mo duinne.
Serrée contre lui, je sentais son cœur battre.
- Je t'aime.”

“Je ne suis que le laird, pas Dieu. Mais la frontière est parfois ténue entre la justice et la barbarie. J’espère simplement que je suis du bon côté. Je”

“pour la première fois, je compris la sévérité des dictons écossais concernant la paresse. L’oisiveté n’était pas qu’un signe de décrépitude morale, mais une insulte à l’ordre naturel des choses. Certes”

“Il venait parfoid chez Alex quand je m'y trouvais, mais, le plus souvent, il m'attendait, tapi sous une porte cochère, et surgissait du brouillard derrière moi. C'était éprouvant pour les nerfs : j'avais l'impression d'être poursuivie par le fantôme de Frank.”

“This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her?

She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.”

“If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.'
'Yes, he… was.'
'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.”

“As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”

“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.”

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

“And you, my Sassenach? What were you born for? To be lady of a manor, or to sleep in the fields like a gypsy? To be a healer, or a don's wife, or an outlaw's lady?"

"I was born for you," I said simply, and held out my arms to him.”

“D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.”

“I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!”

“A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.”

“It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.”

“I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.”

“Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.”

“Thy life’s journey lies along its own path, Ian,” she said, “and I cannot share thy journey—but I can walk beside thee. And I will.”

“When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.”

“Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk."
You aren't standing up." he point out.
You are.”

“If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.”

“There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.”

“Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach," he said, his speech measured and precise, "I will take later, every time.”

“And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire--- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. --Jamie”

“Are you alright?"
"No, I bumped my head." Rubbing the spot, I looked dazedly around the bare hallway.
"What did I bang it on?" I demanded ungrammatically.
"head." he said, rather grumpily, I thought.”

“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.”

“Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion -- and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder…”

“And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.”

“What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi' a fish whilst I was fighting for my life?”

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

“Why d'ye talk to yourself?'
'It assures me of a good listener.”

“I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.”

“Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.”

“So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie”