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.”

“He blinked, and his eyes moved at last from her face, slowly taking in her appearance, and- with what seemed to her a new and horrified awareness- her height.

"My God," he croaked. "”

“…… what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.”

“Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil.”

“He's a man… and that's no small thing to be.”

“You're mine, mo duinne… Mine alone, now and forever… Aye, I mean to use ye hard, my Sassenach… I want to own you, to posses you, body and soul." pge 319”

“Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.”

“Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.”

“He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.”

“Our lovemaking was always risk and promise-for if he held my life in his hands when he lay with me, I held his soul, and knew it.”

“I only said I felt like God, Sassenach," he murmured. "I never said I was.”

“The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.”

“I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.”

“I have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenach—but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands,” he said softly. “And you know that.”

“So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "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.”

“Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way… but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.”

“It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.”

“If one day, a bhailach… ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards.”

“If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.”

“He shook his head and squeezed my hand tight. "You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered, "You are my heart-- I am your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?" --Jamie”

“I heard you went to Ireland… I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?

Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.”

“It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.”

“Damn you, Sassenach!" his voice said, from a very great distance. His voice was choked with passion. "Dam you! I swear if ye die on me, I'll kill you!”

“I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach.” His hand cupped my breast, gently now. “I suppose I find myself lonely without ye.”

“He leaned close, rubbing his bearded cheek against my ear. 'And how about a sweet kiss, now, for the brave lads of the clan MacKenzie? Tulach Ard!'
Erin go bragh,' I said rudely, and pushed with all my strength.”

“You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.”

“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…”

“Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?”

“I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser”

“Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations.”