Lisha Travis

“Some jobs in medicine require a certain ruthlessness to complete successfully; detachment is necessary to inflict pain in the process of effecting a healing”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“sweeping off his hat. Taking her hand, he bowed”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Space Between

“In 1593, soon after Marlowe’s murder, a troop of English actors brought a production of the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus to Germany. Through some metamorphosis, the tragedy became a comedy, and the comedy was then transformed into a puppet show. It was more than likely in this form that the young Goethe first came upon what would become his most famous work.”
― Gary Lachman, A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult

“St Paul says “Let a woman be silent, and –”’ ‘You can mind your own bloody business,’ I snarled, sweat dripping behind my ears, ‘and so can St Paul.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Cross Stitch