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

Diana Gabaldon

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Diana Gabaldon
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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Williams
Arizona
Diana J. Gabaldon Perez
Dies
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It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach
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I was born for you -Claire Fraser, Outlander
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Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they were at any age-at any time, even when the child is fully grown or a parent themselves.
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To see the years touch ye gives me joy, he whispered, for it means that ye live.
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Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
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If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.
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It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.
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There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in 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, and when both and neither surround you.
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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.
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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!
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Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.
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Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
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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.
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