Angie

“Nice clothes are all very well, but if gossip and scheming and worry and silly parties and tiny rules of etiquette go with them … no. I’d as soon live in my shift and say what I like.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“I would have liked to know what Emily Post had to recommend in a situation like this, but as Miss Post wasn’t present, I was forced to improvise.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

“Always, always, I had had to balance compassion with wisdom, love with judgment, humanity with ruthlessness.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

“Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?” “Absence,” I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. “And fonder. If anything’s growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn’t be his heart.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager