Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Diana Gabaldon
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 11
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Williams
Arizona
Diana J. Gabaldon Perez
Heart
Sassenach
Whispered
Conscience
Neither
Compassion
Courage
Alone
Whole

More quotes by Diana Gabaldon

Image
We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul
Diana Gabaldon
Image
For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here, he said, so softly I could barely hear him, here in the dark, with you… I have no name.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
Diana Gabaldon
Image
If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
I was born for you -Claire Fraser, Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
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.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
That's what marriage is good for it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. “Oh, no, Mam!” he said. “It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!
Diana Gabaldon
Image
I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser
Diana Gabaldon
Image
It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach
Diana Gabaldon
Image
When you're reading, you're not where you are you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
Diana Gabaldon