Quote

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

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
Scots
Forgiving
Memories
Long
People

More quotes by Diana Gabaldon

Image
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.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
I'll scream! Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm you've got good lungs.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.
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
Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way and American thinks a hundred years is a long time
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Do ye not understand?he said, in near desparation. I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye! He honestly thought it mattered.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
I didn't say you shouldn't worry, do you think I don't worry? But no, you probably can't do anything about me.' 'Well, maybe no, Sassenach, and maybe so. But I've lived a long enough time now to think it maybe doesna matter so much-- so long as I can love you.' -Claire & Jamie Fraser
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
So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh, he whispered, 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.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach
Diana Gabaldon
Image
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.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?
Diana Gabaldon
Image
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Sassenach. He had called me that from the first the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
Only you, he said, so softly I could barely hear him. To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie--and yet ye love me.
Diana Gabaldon
Image
You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach, he said quietly. So long as you love me.
Diana Gabaldon