Gainel C

“He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical questions.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“Roger became aware, in a subliminally marital way, that his wife was disgruntled at the thought of being left behind to organize the harvest-a filthy, exhausting job at the best of times-whilst he frolicked with a squad of his co-religionists in the romantically exciting metropolis of Cross Creek, population two hundred.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“Mama says the Beardsleys follow her around like dogs, but they don’t. They follow her like tame wolves.
I thought Ian said it wasn’t possible to tame wolves.
It isn’t.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“If one day, a bhailach...ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes