"I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet."

“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”

“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”

“Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.”

“...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.996, Delacorte Press

“Hippies? Why, I'm the original.”

“Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do”

“Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.”