{"author":"Diana Gabaldon","author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon","total_quotes":107,"quotes":[{"text":"I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog biscuits and go upstairs. By the time I've consumed my Diet Coke and had a quick run through the morning email and Twitter feed, I will probably be compos mentis enough to work.","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["work","morning","time "],"id":973,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"},{"text":"Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. 'The grave's a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace.","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["novel","outlander"],"id":7858,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"},{"text":"That dog is a wolf, is he not?''Aye, well, mostly.'A small flash of hazel told him not to quibble.'And yet he is thy boon companion, a creature of rare courage and affection, and altogether a worthy being?;'Oh, aye,' he said with more confidence. 'He is.'She gave him an even look.'Thee is a wolf, too, and I know it. But thee is my wolf, and best thee know that.'He'd started to burn when she spoke, an ignition swift and fierce as the lighting of one of his cousin's matches. He put out his hand, palm forward, to her, still cautious lest she too, burst into flame.'What I said to ye, before . . . That I kent ye loved me-'She stepped forward and pressed her palm to his, her small, cool fingers linking tight.'What I say to thee now is that I do love thee. And if thee hunts at night, thee will come home.'Under the sycamore, the dog yawned and laid his muzzle on his paws.'And sleep at they feet,' Ian whispered, and gathered her in with his one good arm, both of them blazing bright as day.","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["love","romance","shipping"],"id":16578,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"},{"text":"He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["discovery-of-oneself","love","reflection"],"id":25766,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"},{"text":"The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["conscience","evil","law"],"id":29514,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"},{"text":"I will have papers. And whether it is one George or the other who rules in time - this land will be ours. And yours,' he added softly, raising his eyes to Brianna's. 'And your children's after you.' I laid my hand on his, where it rested on the box. His skin was warm with work and the heat of the day, and he smelt of clean sweat. The hairs on his forearm shone red and gold in the sun, and I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that so doing will keep it from departing.","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["men","time"],"id":31440,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"},{"text":"Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and family, love.'She cast a lopsided smile at Jamie. 'And that's saying quite a bit.","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["family","family-relationships","romance"],"id":33234,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"},{"text":"Not the historians. No, not them. Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-- for the most part, they think what they were meant to think, and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smokescreen of artifacts and paper...No, the fault lies with the artists...The writers, the singers, the tellers of tales. It's them that take the past and re-create it to their liking. Them that could take a fool and give you back a hero, take a sot and make him a king...Liars?...Or sorcerers? Do they see the bones in the dust of the earth, see the essence of a thing that was, and clothe it in new flesh, so the plodding beast reemerges as a fabulous monster?","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["history","philosophy","thought-provoking"],"id":33939,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"},{"text":"Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["humor","medicine"],"id":40020,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"},{"text":"One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.","author":"Diana Gabaldon","tags":["claire-fraser","medicine","outlander","war"],"id":43977,"author_id":"Diana+Gabaldon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":107,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}