Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone Quotes

“My body is out from my control,” he said softly. “She was the half of my body—the very half of my soul.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“Ye dinna stop loving someone just because they’re deid,” she said reprovingly. “I canna suppose they stop lovin’ you, either.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“You know these things. — And yet, somehow, you never think it will be today.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“No man owns his own life,” he said. “Part of you is always in someone else’s hands. All ye can do is hope it’s mostly God’s hands you’re in.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“Meals were the daily bane of my existence; not so much the constant work of picking, cleaning, chopping, cooking—though those activities were fairly baneful in themselves—but primarily the never-ending chore of remembering what we had on hand, and balancing the effort required to make it edible against the knowledge of what might spoil if we didn’t eat it right away.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“YOU KNOW THAT SOMETHING is coming. Something—a specific, dire, and awful something—will happen. You envision it, you push it away. It rolls slowly, inexorably, back into your mind. You make what preparation you can. Or you think you do, though your bones know the truth—there isn’t any way to sidestep, accommodate, lessen the impact. It will come, and you will be helpless before it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“But each one of us is called to live our lives in the smaller moments; to do kindness, to risk our feelings, to take a chance on someone else, to meet the needs of the people we care for. Because God is everywhere, and lives in all of us. Those small moments are His.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“The body forms internal scars as well as surface scars when a wound heals—and so does the mind.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“But war’s war, Sassenach. Honor only makes it a bit easier to live wi’ yourself, afterward.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“Forgiveness doesna make things go away.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“I wish Jane would haunt me.” The words weren’t much above a whisper, but I heard it clearly enough, and my heart clenched. The memory of that sort of wish—the bone-deep need to have contact of any sort, a longing that harrowed the soul, a hollowness that could never be filled—struck me so hard that I couldn’t speak.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“Over the years, I’d seen a lot of sweet, amiable, biddable patients, who succumbed within hours to their ailments. The angry, irascible, difficult sons of bitches (of either sex) almost always survived.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“You go into a situation with an expectation,' his uncle Hal had told him once, during a discussion of military tactics. 'You should know what you want to happen, even if what you want is no more than your own survival. That expectation will dictate your actions.

'Since,' his father had neatly interposed, 'you might do something different, if you only wanted to get out alive, than you would if your primary desire was to keep a majority of your troops alive. And something else again, if what you wanted was to defeat an opposing commander and damn the cost.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

“When ye ha’ bairns, there’s that wee time when ye really are all they need. And then they leave your arms and ye’re scairt all over again, because now ye ken all the things that could harm them, and you not able to keep them from it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“Pfft,” Fergus said, and pulled the cork. “In these times, there’s little one can do that isn’t dangerous. If I’m going to be killed for something, I should like it to be something that matters. If it’s entertaining, so much the better.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“Ningún hombre es dueño de su propia vida”, dijo. “Una parte de ti siempre está en manos de otra persona. Todo lo que puedes hacer es esperar que sea principalmente en las manos de Dios en las que estás”.”
― Diana Gabaldón, Cuenta a las abejas que me fui

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you,” he said. “What?” she said, startled. “Who said that?” “Should I be hurt that you didn’t think it was me?” he said, laughing. “It’s A. A. Milne. From Winnie-the-Pooh, if you can believe it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“He had a dim memory of his father telling him that a secret remained a secret only so long as just one person knew it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“As with all redheads, the color of her hair depended on the light in which one saw her: brown in shadow, blazing in sunlight, and by the light of a low-burning fire, a fall of changing color, sparked with threads of gold.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“[...] to an American, a hundred years is a long time, and to an Englishman, a hundred miles is a long way.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

“I nodded mechanically at this, feeling as though she’d dropped a pebble into the small pool of calmness I was hoarding, sending ripples of uneasiness through me.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“How do you say, ‘Go away, you wicked sod’?” I asked, diverted. “Va t’en, espèce de méchant,”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“We aren’t called upon so often to make a grand gesture…to be heroes. Though we have a few among us.” He smiled at them, meeting eyes here and there in the crowd. “But each one of us is called to live our lives in the smaller moments; to do kindness, to risk our feelings, to take a chance on someone else, to meet the needs of the people we care for. Because God is everywhere, and lives in all of us. Those small moments are His. And He will make of those small things glory…and let His…greatness…shine in…in you.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“visit Aggie McElroy—I think for the purpose of exhibiting him as a terrible example, in hopes of keeping Aggie’s youngest daughter from marrying the first young man who”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“If the author thought it was worth his writing it down, then it’s worth my reading it. I dinna mean to miss a single word.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“See, when ye come to reckon your life,” she said briskly, stooping to pick up the goat’s rope, “ye see that it’s the bairns are most important. They carry your blood and they carry whatever else ye gave them, on into the time ahead.” Her voice was perfectly steady, but she cleared her throat with a tiny hem before going on.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone

“W każdą sytuację należy wkraczać z konkretnymi oczekiwaniami (...) Musisz wiedzieć, czego chcesz, choćby sprowadzało się to jedynie do pozostania przy życiu. Bo właśnie te oczekiwania narzucą ci, co masz robić.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

“Żegnając kogoś, nigdy nie wiemy, czy nie widzimy go ostatni raz. Można przynajmniej mu powiedzieć, że go kochamy.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

“Nie przestajesz kogoś kochać tylko dlatego, że umarł.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

“Kiedy masz dzieci, bardzo krótko jesteś absolutnie wszystkim, czego potrzebują. Potem wypuszczasz je z objęć i znowu się boisz, bo wiesz, ile niebezpieczeństw im grozi, a nie zdołasz ich przed nimi uchronić.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone