A SERIES OF SHORT, SHARP SHOCKS
Solitude was in its own way a balm for loneliness.
Are like sherry in crystal, and
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.
Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comforted by the realization that, in fact, he never left.
Turd-eating son of a flying tortoise
The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination. Rain
Penstemon, overhearing
Not Duncan, but Da’s down there
Money is a good bridle, but a weak rein.
It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.
Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and famil...
I only wondered … have you … been quite alone all this time? Since your wife died?
I loved Frank...I loved him alot. But by that time, Jamie was my heart and the breath of my body. I couldn't leave him. I couldn't.
I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach. His hand cupped my breast, gently now. I suppose I find myself lonely without ye.
He who throws dirt is losing ground,
For a long time, he said at last, when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard of some great man. All orphans do this, I think, he added dispassionately.It makes life easier to bear,...
Fat-heided creatures, the Carmichaels, she said judiciously. Loyal enough, but stubborn as rocks.Thus sayeth a Fraser, I remarked. The Carmichaels must be something special in that line.
Castle Leoch. Well, at least now I knew where I was. When I had known it, Castle Leoch was a picturesque ruin, some thirty miles north of Bargrennan. It was considerably more picturesque now, what wit...
Because I wanted you. He turned from the window to face me. More than I ever wanted anything in my life, he added softly.I continued staring at him, dumbstruck. Whatever I had been expecting, it wasn'...