Frasi di Diana Gabaldon

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“L’amore per un figlio non può essere libero: sin dai primi segni di movimento nell’utero germoglia in noi una devozione tanto potente quanto viscerale, irresistibile come l’atto stesso della nascita. Ma, per quanto potente esso sia, si tratta pur sempre di un amore fatto di controllo; si diventa guardiani, protettori, custodi: c’è tantissima passione in questo, certo, ma mai abbandono.
Avevo sempre, sempre dovuto bilanciare la compassione con la saggezza, l’amore con il giudizio, l’umanità con l’inflessibilità.
Solo a Jamie avevo dato tutto ciò che possedevo, rischiando tutto. Avevo gettato al vento cautela, giudizio e saggezza, insieme ai piaceri e alle limitazioni di una carriera duramente conquistata. Gli avevo portato in dono nient’altro che me stessa, non ero stata altro che me stessa con lui, donandomi anima e corpo, e avevo lasciato che mi vedesse nuda, confidando che mi avrebbe amata tutta intera, comprese le mie fragilità, perché un tempo era stato così.”

“Ci sono cose che io non posso dire a te, almeno non ancora. E non insisterò affinché tu mi riveli i tuoi segreti. Però ti chiedo questo: quando mi dici qualcosa, fa che sia la verità. E io ti prometto di fare lo stesso. Tra noi per ora non c'è nulla, tranne… il rispetto, forse. E penso che nel rispetto possa esserci spazio per i segreti, ma non per le bugie. Sei d'accordo?”

“D'accordo", sibilai tra i denti, mentre flettevo con cautela la mano destra ancora formicolante. "Cos'è che si deve fare, quando si colpisce un osso e si perde il coltello? Esiste una procedura fissa in questi casi?"
"Oh, aye", rispose Rupert, sghignazzando. "Tiri fuori la pistola con la sinistra e lo fai secco.”

“Rimasi immobile, la visione si offuscò e in quel momento sentii il mio cuore spezzarsi. Era un suono piccolo e pulito, come lo schiocco del gambo di un fiore.”

“Dove c'è amore, il parlare non è necessario”

“Non aver paura. Siamo in due adesso.”

“Oh, sì, Sassenach. Io sono il tuo padrone … e tu sei mio. Sembra che io possa possedere la tua anima senza perdere la mia.”

“Anch'io posso sopportare il dolore, disse sottovoce, ma non potevo sopportare il tuo. Ciò richiederebbe più forza di me.”

“This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her?

She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.”

“If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.'
'Yes, he… was.'
'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.”

“As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”

“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.”

“Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.”

“And you, my Sassenach? What were you born for? To be lady of a manor, or to sleep in the fields like a gypsy? To be a healer, or a don's wife, or an outlaw's lady?"

"I was born for you," I said simply, and held out my arms to him.”

“D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.”

“I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!”

“A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.”

“It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.”

“I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.”

“Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.”

“Thy life’s journey lies along its own path, Ian,” she said, “and I cannot share thy journey—but I can walk beside thee. And I will.”

“When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.”

“Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk."
You aren't standing up." he point out.
You are.”

“If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.”

“There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.”

“Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach," he said, his speech measured and precise, "I will take later, every time.”

“And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire--- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. --Jamie”

“Are you alright?"
"No, I bumped my head." Rubbing the spot, I looked dazedly around the bare hallway.
"What did I bang it on?" I demanded ungrammatically.
"head." he said, rather grumpily, I thought.”

“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.”

“Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion -- and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder…”

“And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.”

“What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi' a fish whilst I was fighting for my life?”

“He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.”

“Why d'ye talk to yourself?'
'It assures me of a good listener.”

“I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.”

“Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.”

“So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie”