Top 100 Gabaldon Quotes
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#2. He shook his head slowly from side to side, as though it were very heavy. I could almost hear the contents sloshing.
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#3. And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.
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#4. A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight - any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored Highlander in the prime of his life is breathtaking.
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#5. What, she's taken the hairs off her honeypot?" he said, horrified into uncharacteristic vulgarity.
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#6. To dry the damp hem, and the firelight glowed from both my rings. A strong disposition to
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#7. We currently enjoy the hospitality of the local smith, a gentleman named Heughan.
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#9. Means of dealing with the Three Furies before they drove her crazy or assassinated each other with rolling pin or knitting needle.
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#10. There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh," he said softly. "The greatest of warriors may be overcome.
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#11. As usual in such matters, God's sense of humor trumped all imagination.
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#12. Woodbine took the note away, revealing the paper beneath:
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#13. She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.
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#14. Mama says the Beardsleys follow her around like dogs, but they don't. They follow her like tame wolves.
I thought Ian said it wasn't possible to tame wolves.
It isn't.
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#15. The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the back pew.
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#16. Quite without thought, he glanced at his left hand, and saw the ghost of the scar at the base of his thumb, the "C" so faded that it was scarcely visible. He had not noticed it or thought of it in years, and felt suddenly as though there was not air enough to breathe.
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#17. Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own ... and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered only by the outlines of a face long-loved.
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#18. I hope I don't," she said. "But she said - Laoghaire - " She stumbled on the name. "L'heery," Ian corrected.
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#19. You don't need to know the purpose as you write, but when you read over something you've written, you should be able to point to any given element - be that a line of dialogue, a descriptive phrase, a plot point - and say why it's there.
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#20. You've not been sleeping proper," Byrd said accusingly. "I can tell. You've been a-wallowing on your pillow; your hair's a right rat's nest!
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#21. The big white house glowed on the hill above them, tranquil in the afternoon light, the big red spruce behind it a looming but benign presence; not for the first time, he felt that the tree was somehow guarding the house - and in his present fragile mental state, found that notion a comfort.
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#23. It is strange," Mr. Willoughby said, and the air of reflection in his voice was echoed exactly by Jamie's, "but it was my joy of women that Second Wife saw and loved in my words. Yet by desiring to possess me - and my poems - she would have forever destroyed what she admired." Mr.
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#24. For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary
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#25. Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids
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#26. Motioned to the sergeant-major to turn the prisoner around to show his back.
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#27. But we must not judge, thee knows, most particularly by appearance. Even one who seems most frivolous, spendthrift, or light-minded yet has a soul and is valuable before God.
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#28. Ah?" he said, vaguely. "No, I dinna think so. Still," he said with a smile, pulling his attention suddenly back to her, "I wouldna be likely to. A young burke of sixteen's too taken up wi' his own grand self to pay much heed to what he thinks are naught but a rabble of snot-nosed bairns.
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#29. An eye-jangling assortment of spurious clan tartans, adorning every conceivable object made of fabric, from caps, neckties, and serviettes down to a particularly horrid yellow "Buchanan" sett used to make men's nylon Y-front underpants.
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#30. Can I help you? She was middle height and very pretty. He had an overall impression of fine bones and white linen, topped with a wealth of curly brown hair in a sort of half-tamed chignon. And in the middle of it all, the most extraordinary pair of light eyes, just the color of well-aged sherry.
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#31. I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.
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#32. Christ, was he going to die in public, in a pleasure garden, in the company of a sodomite spy dressed like a rooster?
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#34. Still, the novelty of any letter or package was sufficient that no one suggested opening it until the full measure of enjoyment should have been extracted from speculation about its contents.
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#35. Seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.
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#36. He wanted to laugh; the vision of her pounding that wee boy in a fury of berserk rage, hair flying in the wind and a look of blood in her eye, was one he would treasure.
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#37. You're the world I have," she murmured, and then her breathing changed, and she took him down with her into safety.
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#38. No, blast it! I can't even shoot the bastard, without dishonoring my brother's sworn word!
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#39. That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl
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#40. Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice
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#42. Next time I marry someone, I'll pick a lass who wakes up cheerful in the morning,
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#43. When had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?
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#44. He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.
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#47. Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
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#48. His hairline. Luckily, the arrival of the salmagundi
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#49. A Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases,
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#50. Joy. Fear. Fear, most of all." His hand came up and smoothed my curls away from his nose
"I havena been afraid for a verra long time, Sassenach," he whispered. "But now I think I am. For there is something to be lost, now." Page 394
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#51. Where did you learn to kiss like that?" I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again.
"I said I was a virgin, not a monk," he said, kissing me again. "If I find I need guidance, I'll ask.
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#52. I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser
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#53. But we do not fear silence, for often God speaks loudest in the quiet of our hearts. And
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#54. Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking.
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#55. Roger wondered if this was the sort of way you felt after a battle; the sheer relief of finding yourself alive and unwounded made you want to laugh and arse about, just to prove you still could.
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#56. So now thee has doomed thy kinsman, repudiated thy father, and caused me to betray my principles. What next?!" "Oh, bloody hell," he said, and grabbed her arms, pulled her roughly to him, and kissed her. He let go and stepped back quickly, leaving her bug-eyed and gasping. The
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#57. If I take my time to ready you" (if he could take his time, amended his brain), "I think it will be not much worse than a pinch.
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#58. Superstition and sensation are always so much more appealing than truth and rationality. The
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#60. I chose my way when I wed ye, though I kent it not at the time. But I chose, and cannot now turn back, even if I would.'
'Would you?' I looked into his eyes as I asked, and read the answer there. He shook his head.
'Would you? For you have chosen, as much as I.
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#61. Nothing moved on the surface but faint coruscations of starlight, caught like fireflies in a spider's web.
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#62. newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and
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#63. Good luck, Jamie," he said, voice a little husky. "God go with you.
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#64. While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl's heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish parents, such as property, income, a left hand, and a last name.
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#65. God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!
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#66. Dinna fash yourself, Sassenach. Ye canna say more than ye know, but tell me it all, just once more.
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#67. Incongruous that he laughed. And then realized that there
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#69. She may be a good whore, but she's no hand at cards.
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#70. Randall! Of course!" Roger smacked himself on the forehead, and felt his cheeks grow hot at Brianna's giggle. "You're going to think me a complete fool, but I've only just realized who you are.
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#71. Mmphm," he said. "Hell of a choice, there. A stick up the cock, or a finger up the backside, eh?
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#72. The good man's only singularity lies in his approving welcome to every experience the looms of fate may weave for him,
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#73. 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.
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#75. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.
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#77. You can't make a horse do anything. You see what he's going to do and then you tell him to do that, and he thinks it's your idea, so next time you tell him something, he's more likely to do what you tell him.
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#78. I'll be setting off just after the Angelus bell- at noon, I mean - should that suit your honors.
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#79. Marketing with a small baby was more like a ninety-minute expedition into Darkest Borneo, requiring massive amounts of equipment and tremendous expenditures of energy.
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#80. Away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. International financiers change their names and vanish
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#81. I dinna mean to interruupt ye, Sassenach" he whispered in my air. "But would ye like a bit of help we that?
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#82. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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#83. onto the fabric of her shift; I reached out one-handed and tweaked the cloth up to cover her. She put a hand over her breast and pressed hard to stop the milk. "What does he mean to do, though? If he finds him.
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#84. I felt sick when I thought of the end - but I really wanted to remember how. How it felt, and how I did it, so maybe I can do it again, with Roger.
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#85. I felt adrift, anchorless in a running sea. This is now my home.
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#86. 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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#88. so he died, at the conclusion of an eminently useful life, and thus obtained his crown in Paradise.
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#89. If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying to me about it-then everything I've done and everything I've been-my whole life-has been a lie. And I am not prepared to admit such a thing.
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#90. Stones of protection; amethyst, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and a male ruby.
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#92. Aye, well," Murray replied, "but think. Say a man is a coward and hasna died well. Purgatory gives him a chance to prove his courage after all, no? And once he is proved a proper man, then the bridge is open to him, and he can pass through the clouds of terrible things unhindered to paradise.
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#93. I was convinced by now that his feelings for Laoghaire were only those of a chivalrous friendship, but I didn't know what he might do if he knew that his uncle had seduced the girl and got her with child.
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#94. Social prejudice is a strong force, but no match for simple competence when skill is in urgent demand and short supply.
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#95. Lavender and rosemary should be cut in the morning, though, when the volatile oils had risen with the sun; it wasn't as potent if taken later in the day.
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#96. He said there was always an hour in the day when time seems to stop - but that it was different for everyone. He thought it might be the hour when one was born.
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#98. He said the greatest thing in a man's life is to lie wi' a woman he loves," he said softly. He smiled at me, eyes blue as the sky overhead. "He was right.
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#99. I don't know. She said you're born with the lines of your hand - with a life - but then the lines change, with the things you do, and the person you are.
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#100. Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed!
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