Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

n the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel like a wound in a bad place, prone to be bumped on corners or edges. Never able to heal.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true voice is.

I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.

Like, if you get close enough to me you'll see how I really am.

It's torment to look in the mirror and not recognize the man in the reflection. How amazing would it be to love someone through their honest and ugly moments?! It takes a journey to work off the mask to become authentic and whole.

Since I’ve known you, you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I’ve known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I’m in love with.

I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.