After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity?

— Diana Gabaldon

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

— Diana Gabaldon

A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.

— Diana Gabaldon

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 their embrace.

— Diana Gabaldon

All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.

— Diana Gabaldon

Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good.

— Diana Gabaldon

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

— Diana Gabaldon

And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you Diana wish to, for ye Anna 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.

— Diana Gabaldon

And I tell you what, L.J.; you see all these people you haven't seen for twenty years, and there's this split second when you meet somebody you used to know, and you think 'My God, he's changed!,'and then all of a sudden, he hasn't- it's just like the twenty years weren't there, I mean" he rubbed his head vigorously, struggling for meaning--"you see they've got some gray, and some lines, and maybe they aren't just the same as they were, but two minutes past that shock, and you don't see it anymore. They are just the same people they always were, and you have to make yourself stand back a ways to see that they aren't eighteen anymore

— Diana Gabaldon

A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.

— Diana Gabaldon