My list of quotes

Some quotes from the books I read

[madowo-quotes]

Honor without sense is...foolishness. A gallant foolishness, but foolishness nonetheless.

“Dragonfly in Amber” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

I knew that only Jamie himself could pull me back the rest of the way, into the land of the living. That was why I had run from him, done all I could to keep him away, to make sure he would never come near me again. I had no wish to come back, no desire to feel again. I didn't want to know love, only to have it ripped away once more.

“Dragonfly in Amber” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

“Dragonfly in Amber” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone's weakness? Can I not have my own?

“Dragonfly in Amber” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

I wondered whether perhaps babies had no gender - physical characteristics aside - until birth, when the act of exposure to the outside world set them forever as one or the other.

“Dragonfly in Amber” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

Music is...a lock to which you have no key?

“Dragonfly in Amber” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

If you've had much to do wi' Highland Scots, then ye'll know that it's rare to find two of them in agreement on anything much beyond the color of the sky - and even that is open to question from time to time.

“Dragonfly in Amber” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

There is very little difference between medicine and magic, when it comes to some kinds of healing.

“Dragonfly in Amber” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

A man who had never spoken love to me, who had never needed to, for I knew he loved me, as surely as I knew I lived. For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough.

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

I think it's as though everyone has a small place inside themselves, maybe, a private bit that they keep to themselves. It's like a little fortress, where the most private part of you lives - maybe it's your soul, maybe just that bit that makes you yourself and not anyone else.

“Outlander” dy Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

I can bear pain, myself, but I could not bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying; once gone, what is left is only an object.

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle. Past that certain point, you lose all fear of pain or injury. Life becomes very simple at that point; you will do what you are trying to do, or die in the attempt, and it does not really matter much which.

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

There is a fine line sometimes, between justice and brutality.

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

If your life is a suitable exchange for my honour, tell me why my honour is not suitable exchange for your life?

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

And I wept then, and shook a little, because the choice was so freshly made, and because my joy for the man I held in my arms was mingled with a tearing grief for the man I would never see again.

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

[madowo-quotes]

Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon