Diana Gabaldon Quotes

Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

I feel like I'm too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Intimacy is healing.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Don't lie to your partner. Ultimately the expression on your face gives you away, and they feel betrayed by the lie. If this is the person you're going to be with - forever and ever, for better or worse - they will love you for all of your good and all of your bad. They'll love you for you. So open communication is key. I have no secrets and no skeletons in my closet with my husband, and I love that. I feel comfortable and at ease with myself when I'm around him. I love the woman that I've become with him.

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.

Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood. Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships. It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations. Love is the power that initiates friendship, tolerance, civility, and respect. It is the source that overcomes divisiveness and hate. Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.