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Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
– Diana Gabaldon

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  1. 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
  2. Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman’s fire. – Anya Seton
  3. Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
  4. Only I had dry eyes, a dry heart. – VC Andrews
  5. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. – Diana Gabaldon
  6. It’s always better if they see. Then they don’t imagine things. So I didn’t imagine, I remembered. – Diana Gabaldon
  7. You’re beautiful to me, Jamie,- I said softly, at last. -œSo beautiful, you break my heart. – Diana Gabaldon
  8. Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids – Diana Gabaldon
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. – Diana Gabaldon
  12. Don’t let characters talk pointlessly-”they only talk if there’s something to say. – Diana Gabaldon
  13. 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
  14. Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. – Diana Gabaldon
  15. If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. – Diana Gabaldon
  16. Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. – Diana Gabaldon
  17. Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. – Diana Gabaldon
  18. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. – Diana Gabaldon
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness. – Diana Gabaldon
  22. 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
  23. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade? – 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. 12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  30. To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. – Jane Austen
  31. The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. – Johann Sebastian Bach
  32. Restoration brings refreshment. – Lailah Gifty
  33. Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory -“ not getting stuff done. – Leland Ryken
  34. Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not? – Charlotte Bront
  35. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  36. There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
  37. Reading an author’s Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience. – Suzy Davies
  38. There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
  39. Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
  40. Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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