Date Posted:Wed, June 19 2024, 4:05:10 Author: Janet Subject: QOTD
Quote of the Day for Wednesday, June 19, 2024
The following quote is from Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 6, I Encounter a Hernia. Copywrite 1997, all rights reserved.
“Claire Fraser,” I said, offering him a hand in fascination. He squinted at it a moment, brought my fingers to his nose and sniffed them, then looked up and broke into a wide smile, nonetheless charming for missing half his teeth.
“Why you’ll maybe be a yarb-woman, won’t you?”
“I will?”
He turned my hand gently over , tracing the chlorophyll stains around my cuticles.
“A green fingered lady might just be tending her roses, but a lady whose hands smell of sassafras root and Jesuit bark is like to know more than how to make flowers bloom. Don’t you reckon that’s so?” he asked, turning a friendly gaze on Ian, who was viewing Mr. Myers with unconcealed interest.
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I like him, too! The secondary characters really add color to the narrative and helps to ground the story in time and place. -- Janet, Wed, June 19 2024, 10:17:26
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It’s almost hard to call them “secondary” because Diana makes them so interesting and integral to the story. I never thought of how she uses them to ground the story in times and places, but it’s so true. I love JQM too, and can’t stop laughing when I think of his hernia surgery. He certainly was an earthy man. -- Kathy in PA, Thu, June 20 2024, 2:12:08
