Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
– Diana Gabaldon
Related Quotes:
- The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM. – Amit Ray
- We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others ‘. – Brennan Manning
- Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. – William Shakespeare
- The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman’s effort. – Vladimir Nabokov
- (President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity. – Rick Perlstein
- Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed. – Diana Gabaldon
- It’s always better if they see. Then they don’t imagine things. So I didn’t imagine, I remembered. – Diana Gabaldon
- You’re beautiful to me, Jamie,- I said softly, at last. -œSo beautiful, you break my heart. – Diana Gabaldon
- 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
- Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids – Diana Gabaldon
- 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
- 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
- As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. – Diana Gabaldon
- Don’t let characters talk pointlessly-”they only talk if there’s something to say. – Diana Gabaldon
- 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
- Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. – Diana Gabaldon
- If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. – Diana Gabaldon
- Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. – Diana Gabaldon
- Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. – Diana Gabaldon
- All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. – Diana Gabaldon
- 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
- 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
- He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness. – Diana Gabaldon
- 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
- And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade? – Diana Gabaldon
- Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty. – Diana Gabaldon
- 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
- 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
- …knowing what o’clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances. – Diana Gabaldon
- At the best of times, Father Bain’s face resembled a clenched fist. – Diana Gabaldon
- My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
- I woke up to singing and found myself singing too – Don Piper
- A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here. – Bernard Cornwell
- Singing in the rain. I’m singing in the rain. And it’s such a ????ing glorious feeling. – David Levithan
- A person can drop dead even while singing. But that’s no reason to stop singing. – Marty Rubin
- hearing women singing about themselves – rather than men singing about women – makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible – Caitlin Moran
- I got it wrong -“ I was singing for myself when I should have been singing for you all. – Burt – Jamie Scallion
- The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren’t singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone. – Greg Laurie
- Harmony can be achieved within through meditation, which increases overall well-being and function. – Jay Woodman
- The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within. – Arthur Miller