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And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?
– Diana Gabaldon

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  2. The mind is the master of the soul, and the soul is the master of your universe. Learn to master your mind. – Jeffrey Fry
  3. Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. – Diana Gabaldon
  4. I’ve seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches with those who can. – Diana Gabaldon
  5. True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  6. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. – Diana Gabaldon
  7. Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed. – Diana Gabaldon
  8. It’s always better if they see. Then they don’t imagine things. So I didn’t imagine, I remembered. – Diana Gabaldon
  9. You’re beautiful to me, Jamie,- I said softly, at last. -œSo beautiful, you break my heart. – Diana Gabaldon
  10. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
  11. Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids – Diana Gabaldon
  12. If you can’t look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it’s there-”take it out or change it. – Diana Gabaldon
  13. You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it’s better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones. – Diana Gabaldon
  14. As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. – Diana Gabaldon
  15. Don’t let characters talk pointlessly-”they only talk if there’s something to say. – Diana Gabaldon
  16. Dialogue doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage. – Diana Gabaldon
  17. If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. – Diana Gabaldon
  18. Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. – Diana Gabaldon
  19. Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. – Diana Gabaldon
  20. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. – Diana Gabaldon
  21. True, the body’s easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled – yet there’s that in a man that is never destroyed. – Diana Gabaldon
  22. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness. – Diana Gabaldon
  23. The law’s a necessary evil–we canna be doing without it–but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience? – Diana Gabaldon
  24. Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty. – Diana Gabaldon
  25. Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. ‘The grave’s a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace. – Diana Gabaldon
  26. I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself. – Diana Gabaldon
  27. …knowing what o’clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances. – Diana Gabaldon
  28. At the best of times, Father Bain’s face resembled a clenched fist. – Diana Gabaldon
  29. Intentionality fuels the master’s journey. Every master is a master of vision. – George Leonard
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  31. Be a slave of your potential and not a slave of circumstances – Sunday Adelaja
  32. I am free. I am ransomed. I’ve never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like. – Frank E Peretti
  33. The unspiritual is a slave to sin.-¦! But spiritual is slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  34. The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king. – Augustine of Hippo
  35. A person who is another man’s slave is better than one who is a slave to lust. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  36. The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave. – mile Souvestre
  37. Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice – Nathanael Kanyinga
  38. I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband. – Richard von KrafftEbing
  39. You become the master of what you master. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  40. The student asked the master,-œTeacher, what should I do to become great?-the master replied:Succeed where others have failed. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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