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Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

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Diana Gabaldon
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 11
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Williams
Arizona
Diana J. Gabaldon Perez
Within
Volumes
Though
Cherished
Overall
Covers
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Held
Soundlessly
Library
Exultation
Singing
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He leaned close, rubbing his bearded cheek against my ear. 'And how about a sweet kiss, now, for the brave lads of the clan MacKenzie? Tulach Ard!' Erin go bragh,' I said rudely, and pushed with all my strength.
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An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way and American thinks a hundred years is a long time
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Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.
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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.
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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.
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If I die, he whispered in the dark, dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.
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I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser
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Sassenach. He had called me that from the first the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.
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Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul
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Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.
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So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
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Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
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