Diana Gabaldon Quotes

Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.

When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.

it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart, as mine in time not far away; if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as, uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; if this should be, i say if this should be- you of my heart, send me a little word; that i may go unto him, and take his hands, saying, Accept all happiness from me. Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left.

A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could.

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.