Diana Gabaldon Quotes

• You know historians can’t leave a puzzle alone.

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  Topics in History

• Getting up once in the dark to go adventuring is a lark. Twice in two days smacks of masochism.

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• The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.

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  Tags in Time, Mountains

• But there came a point when one abandoned hope for faith, and trusted fate for charity.

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  Tags in Hope, Faith

• Sometimes a shadow rises, and death lies nameless in the dark.

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• Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking.

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  Tags in Anticipation, Hunger

• Time makes very little difference to the basic realities of life.

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• It’s a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

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• You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

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• There aren’t any answers, only choices.

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• Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

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• Money might not buy happiness, I reflected, but it was a useful commodity, nonetheless.

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• The past is gone the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

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• Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

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• Home is the place where they have to take you in.

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• Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way… but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

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• Your face is my heart.

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• Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

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• Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

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• Don’t be afraid. There’s the two of us now.

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Diana Gabaldon (25)

Birth:	11th January, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Diana J. Gabaldon was born in Arizona, USA. She is an American author, known for the Outlander series of novels. A television adaptation of the novels called Outlander premiered on Starz in 2014. She earned a bachelor of science in zoology from Northern Arizona University, a master of science in marine biology from the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and a PhD in behavioral ecology from Northern Arizona University, 1975–1978.

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