Donna

“Facing something down doesn’t mean you aren’t afraid of it,” I said dryly. “Usually quite the opposite.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“It was possible to leave things behind—places, people, memories—at least for a time. But places held tight to the things that had happened in them, and to come again to a place you had once lived was to be brought face-to-face with what you had done there and who you had been.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“Advice? You’re too old to be given it and too young to take it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Like forgiveness, it was not a thing once learned and then comfortably put aside but a matter of constant practice—to accept the notion of one’s own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone