Seven Stones to Stand or Fall Quotes

“You do know that women aren’t rational, don’t you?” “I do. Neither are men.” “Well, you have a point,”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“The world is chaos and death and destruction. But people like you—you don’t stand for that. If there is any order in the world, any peace—it’s because of you, John, and those very few like you.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“A duty," she said, holding his hand between her own. "The duty of a survivor. Not everyone lives to be old, but if you do, I think you owe it to those who didn't. To tell the stories of those who shared your journey… for as long as they could.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

“whom”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“I married a lady and she became a whore. I cannot complain if it should be the other way about this time.”

“You think I’m a whore, do you?” She wasn’t sure whether to be amused or insulted. Perhaps both.

“Do you normally sleep with your victims, madam?”

“I wasn’t asleep, Your Grace, and if you had been, I think I would have noticed.

(A Fugitive Green)”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

“He put his arm around her and drew her head down on his shoulder, and they sat silently together, waiting for the light to come back.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“You must not suggest any hint of scandal, and - just as important - you must not cause jealousy. Be sweet and unassuming, always admire your companions’ frocks and dismiss your own, and do not bat your eyes at their sons or brothers, should such be present.

[…]
And as she had no intention whatever of attracting a potential husband, she was extremely popular with the young women of society.
(A Fugitive Green)”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

“Only two names?” Minnie said, surprised. “No titles?”

“No,” he said. “It’s not the Duke of Pardloe or even the Earl of Melton you’re marrying. Just me. Sorry to disappoint you, if that’s what you thought.”

(A Fugitive Green)”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

“Mortimer’s Dissolving, Resolving, and Absolving Tonic—removes stains of any kind: physical, emotional, or moral.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“The duty of a survivor. Not everyone lives to be old, but if you do, I think you owe it to those who didn’t. To tell the stories of those who shared your journey…for as long as they could.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“Don’t be afraid of unimagined possibilities; imagine the possibilities and then imagine what you’ll do about them.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“That’s how ye do it,” his brother Ian had told him, as they leant together on the rail of their mother’s sheep pen, the winter’s wind cold on their faces, waiting for their da to find his way through dying. “Ye find a way to live for that one more minute. And then another. And another.” Ian had lost a wife, too, and knew. He’d wiped his face—he could weep before Ian, while he couldn’t with his elder brother or the girls, certainly not in front of his mother—and asked, “And it gets better after a time, is that what ye’re telling me?” His brother had looked at him straight on, the quiet in his eyes showing through the outlandish Mohawk tattoos. “No,” he’d said softly. “But after a time, ye find ye’re in a different place than ye were. A different person than ye were. And then ye look about and see what’s there with ye. Ye’ll maybe find a use for yourself. That helps.” “Aye, fine,” he said, under his breath, and squared his shoulders. “We’ll see, then.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“wasna expecting the Spanish Inquisition,” she said, a little testily.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“Eventful,” he repeated. “Yes, it was, rather. But I didn’t do anything to Caroline Woodford save hold her hand whilst being shocked by an electric eel, I swear it. Gleeglgleeglgleegl-pppppssssshhhhh,” he added to Dottie, who shrieked and giggled in response. He glanced up to find Hal staring at him”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, it was probably the fault of the electric eel. John Grey could—and for a time, did—blame the Honorable Caroline Woodford, as well. And the surgeon. And certainly that blasted poet. Still…no, it was the eel’s fault”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“It is true that your ball did strike Mr. Nicholls, but this accident contributed little or nothing to his demise. I saw you fire upward into the air—I said as much to those present at the time, though most of them did not appear to take much notice. The ball apparently went up at a slight angle and then fell upon Mr. Nicholls from above. At this point, its power was quite spent, and, the missile itself being negligible in size and weight, it barely penetrated the skin above his collarbone, where it lodged against the bone, doing no further damage”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“Oh, don’t you?” Nicholls raised one honey-colored brow at him and glanced briefly but meaningfully at Miss Woodford. His tone was jocular, but his look was not, and Grey wondered just how much Mr. Nicholls had had to drink. Nicholls was flushed of cheek and glittering of eye, but that might be only the heat of the room, which was considerable, and the excitement of the party”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“Last night,” he repeated, uncertain. Last night had been confused, but he did remember it. The eel party. Lucinda Joffrey, Caroline…Why on earth ought Hal to be concerned with…what, the duel? Why should his brother care about such a silly affair—and even if he did, why appear at Grey’s door at the crack of dawn with his six-month-old daughter”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“The party had been at Lucinda Joffrey’s house. Sir Richard was absent; a diplomat of his stature could not have countenanced something so frivolous. Electric-eel parties were a mania in London just now, but owing to the scarcity of the creatures, a private party was a rare occasion. Most such parties were held at public theaters, with the fortunate few selected for encounter with the eel summoned onstage, there to be shocked and sent reeling like ninepins for the entertainment of the audience”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“An Echo in the Bone (novel)—Set in America, London, Canada, and Scotland, this is the seventh novel of the main series. The book’s cover image reflects the internal shape of the novel: a caltrop. That’s an ancient military weapon that looks like a child’s jack with sharp points; the Romans used them to deter elephants, and the highway patrol still uses them to stop fleeing perps in cars. This book has four major story lines: Jamie and Claire; Roger and Brianna (and family); Lord John and William; and Young Ian, all intersecting in the nexus of the American Revolution—and all the stories have sharp points. (1776–1778/1980”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“The Scottish Prisoner (novel)—This one’s set in 1760, in the Lake District, London, and Ireland. A sort of hybrid novel, it’s divided evenly between Jamie Fraser and Lord John Grey, who are recounting their different perspectives in a tale of politics, corruption, murder, opium dreams, horses, and illegitimate sons”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“The Big Books of the main series deal with the lives and times of Claire and Jamie Fraser. The shorter novels focus on the adventures of Lord John Grey but intersect with the larger books (The Scottish Prisoner, for example, features both Lord John and Jamie Fraser in a shared story). The novellas all feature people from the main series, including Jamie and/or Claire on occasion. The description below explains which characters appear in which stories”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“suppose—maybe medicines? They’re covered,”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“When you write it down…” he said. “Does that make it—whatever it is—real again? Or does the act of putting it into words make it unreal? You know, something…separate from yourself.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“His own words brought back to him the letters he had written now and then. The phantoms, as he thought of them: letters he’d written to Jamie Fraser—honest, conversational, heartfelt, and very real. No less real because he’d burned them all.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“I assure you, Mother,” he said dryly, “you are undoubtedly the most interesting woman I’ve ever met.” She snorted briefly and gave him a direct look. “I suppose that’s why you haven’t yet married, is it?” “I didn’t think a wife needed to be interesting,” he replied, with some honesty. “Most of the ones I know certainly aren’t.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“Thought of the general drew his fragmented thoughts together, a magnet in a scatter of loose iron filings. Someone to depend on…a man to share the burden…he wanted that, above all things. “Oh, God,” he whispered, and moths touched his face, gentle in the dark.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“He stirred, though, at the sounds of the garden gate opening and low voices. “Tom?” he came out from under his sheltering quince, to find both Tom and Rodrigo—both of whom were amazingly, if flatteringly, delighted to see him. “We thought you was done for, sure, me lord,” Tom said for the third or fourth time, following Grey into the kitchen. “You sure you’re all right, are you?” The tone of accusing doubt in this question was so familiar that Grey felt tears come to his eyes. He blinked them away, though, assured Tom that he was somewhat banged about but essentially undamaged. “Gracias a Dios,” Rodrigo said, with such heartfelt sincerity that Grey looked at him in surprise. He said something else in Spanish that Grey didn’t understand; John shook his head, then stopped abruptly, wincing.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“Muchas gracias, my dear,” he told her, and bowed low over her hand. “Azeel, please tell her that we could not even contemplate this venture without her courage and help. The entire British Navy is in her debt.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

“It will be all right,” he said, taking her hand. “We will succeed—and we will rescue Señor Stubbs. I promise you.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction