Top 500 Diana Gabaldon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach.”

— Diana Gabaldon

2. “Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.”

— Diana Gabaldon

3. “Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, ’til our Life shall be Done.”

— Diana Gabaldon

4. “Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”

— Diana Gabaldon

5. “I work late at night. I’m awake and nobody bothers me. It’s quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.”

— Diana Gabaldon

6. “Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul.”

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7. “And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.”

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8. “This is our time. Until that time stops – for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?”

— Diana Gabaldon

9. “You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go.”

— Diana Gabaldon

10. “All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you – just because I am.”

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11. “Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary.”

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12. “For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary.”

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13. “It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”

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14. “Stop it! It’s too big! Take it out!”

— Diana Gabaldon

15. “If I die before I say ‘I love you’ it’s because I didn’t have the time.”

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16. “Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases.”

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17. “What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.”

— Diana Gabaldon

18. “Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed.” “That’s the first law of thermodynamics,” I said, wiping my nose. “No,” he said. “That’s faith.”

— Diana Gabaldon

19. “An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time.”

— Diana Gabaldon

20. “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.”

— Diana Gabaldon

21. “I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.”

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22. “We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.”

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23. “While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them.”

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24. “While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.”

— Diana Gabaldon

25. “When you’re reading, you’re not where you are; you’re in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.”

— Diana Gabaldon

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26. “Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.”

— Diana Gabaldon

27. “Home is the place where they have to take you in.”

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28. “Hodie mihi cras tibi. Sic transit gloria mundi.”

— Diana Gabaldon

29. “There’s always a prayer, a nighean, even if it’s only A Dhia, cuidich mi.” Oh, God – help me.”

— Diana Gabaldon

30. “I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.”

— Diana Gabaldon

31. “Gentle he would be, denied he would not.”

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32. “You forget the life you had before, after awhile. Things you cherish and hold dear are like pearls on a string. Cut the knot and they scatter across the floor, rolling into dark corners never to be found again. So you move on, and eventually you forget what the pearls even looked like. At least, you try.”

— Diana Gabaldon

33. “Then let amourous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred and a Thousand more.”

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34. “Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would ha’ been a good deal easier if you’d only been a witch.”

— Diana Gabaldon

35. “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.”

— Diana Gabaldon

36. “You are alive. You are whole. All is well.”

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37. “I think perhaps the greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help.” “Not in having no one for whom to care?” Fraser paused before answering; he might have been weighing the position of the pieces on the table. “That is emptiness,” he said at last, softly. “But no great burden.”

— Diana Gabaldon

38. “Je suis prest.” I am ready.”

— Diana Gabaldon

39. “We have nothing now between us, save – respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.”

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40. “He reached forward then took me in his arms, held me close for a moment, the breath of snow and ashes cold around us. Then he kissed me, released me, and I took a deep breath of cold air, harsh with the scent of burning.”

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41. “Your face is my heart.”

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42. “Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me, a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you.”

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43. “If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband to finish risking his stupid neck, I’d use the time to see what I could spot.”

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44. “The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.”

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45. “If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.”

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46. “I felt rather like the new moon: the shadow of pain and death was still clearly visible to me – but only because the light was there to throw it into perspective.”

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47. “It wasn’t the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, after all; it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Knowledge might be a poisoned gift – but it was still a gift, and few people would voluntarily give it back.”

— Diana Gabaldon

48. “For I give ye my spirit, ’til our life shall be done.”

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49. “It was a blur,” people say. What they really mean is the impossibility of anyone truly entering such an experience from outside, the futility of explanation.”

— Diana Gabaldon

50. “Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, ‘There she is!’ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks.”

— Diana Gabaldon