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“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“But then, liars do make the best magicians, and he happened to be exceptional.”
― Lisa Maxwell, The Last Magician

“Change you feathers often enough, and the mark won't recognize the bird.”
― Lisa Maxwell, The Last Magician

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“If you get this letter, know that when I told you about true north, I was talking about you. You are my true north, and I can see my way to you now.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm

“Then let amourous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A Thousand and a Hundred score
A Hundred and a Thousand more”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Jamie… I only want to be where you are. Nothing else.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Blood of my blood,” he whispered, “and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens. You are mine, always,”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Dinna be afraid. There’s the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."

His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.”
― Diana Gabaldon , Dragonfly in Amber

“I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“One Choice

One Choice, decided your friends.

One Choice, defines your beliefs.

One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever.

ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire again.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“You're beautiful to me, Jamie,” I said softly, at last. “So beautiful, you break my heart.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return.

And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“Ye’re mine, Sassenach. And I would do anything I thought I must to make that clear.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“All I want,” she said softly to the dark, “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.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a man, to feed them, protect them. But any decent man can do it. A woman …” His lips moved against my fingertips, a faint smile. “A woman takes life with her when she goes. A woman is … infinite possibility.” “Idiot,” I said, very softly. “If you think one man is just like any other.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“But even things that heal leave scars.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone