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

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Source : Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.3692, Dell

Diana Gabaldon

#Past Quotes #Together Quotes #Gone Quotes

“Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2012). “Iron's Prophecy”, p.31, Harlequin
“I miss you when youâ€™re not there. When youâ€™re happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. Youâ€™re family. I love you, but Iâ€™m not in love with you.”
“That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.”

Source : 1983 Waterland, ch.8.
“No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.”

Source : William Edward White, Daniel O'Connell (1954). “Daniel O'Connell's Oratory on Repeal”
“My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.”

Source : "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.
“If you're interested in opening the doors to the heavens, start with the door to your own secret self. See what happens when you offer to another a glimpse of who you truly are. When your heart is undefended, you make it safe for whomever you meet to put down his burden of hiding, and then you both can walk through the open door.”
“I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.”
“Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominland Midwinter”, p.122, Macmillan

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