Donna > Donna's Quotes

“I think sometimes the dead cherish us, as we do them,”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“To create, to hoard, to send these things, these fragile documents, down through the years, with only the hope that they would survive and reach those for whom they were intended.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“It was possible to leave things behind—places, people, memories—at least for a time. But places held tight to the things that had happened in them, and to come again to a place you had once lived was to be brought face-to-face with what you had done there and who you had been.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“Like forgiveness, it was not a thing once learned and then comfortably put aside but a matter of constant practice—to accept the notion of one’s own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“I found the rooted silence, rushing stream, and rustling leaves balm to the spirit.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Ye ken that, don’t ye? That they can only be what they are because you and I are what we are?”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Advice? You’re too old to be given it and too young to take it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“a marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Facing something down doesn’t mean you aren’t afraid of it,” I said dryly. “Usually quite the opposite.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood