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.
Live with Highlanders long enough, and every damn rock and tree meant something! Perhaps
Had it been this way where she came from? Had fires and food held back a jungle darkness, kept away leopards instead of bears? Had light and company given comfort, and the illusion of safety? For illu...
Money might not buy happiness, I reflected, but it was a useful commodity, nonetheless.
Bruce
L’amore per un figlio non può essere libero: sin dai primi segni di movimento nell’utero germoglia in noi una devozione tanto potente quanto viscerale, irresistibile come l’atto stesso della nascita....
Claire knew the flavor of solitude. It was cold as spring water, and not all could drink it; for some it was not refreshment, but mortal chill.
He remembered Jamie’s face as they rode in to Helwater, alight as they saw the women on the lawn—with William.
If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it.
If you find him, she whispered, when you find my father—give him this. She bent and kissed me, fiercely, gently, then straightened and turned me toward the stone. Go, Mama, she said, breathless. I lov...
Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
No hay respuestas, sino elecciones.
He thought of such places in a way that had no words, only recognizing one when he came to it. He might have called it holy, save that the feel of such a place had nothing to do with church or saint....
Why?" I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against his chest. "Why, why why!".Because I was afraid!" He got hold of my wrists and threw me backward so I...
I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.
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,...
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.
Okay. This has to be a credible threat. Ergo, we have to have seen (and heard about) the real damage Randall has done to Jamie thus far; we have to be in no doubt whatever that he’d do real damage to...
I meant with my cook at Mount Josiah, in Virginia. His name is Manoke.
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.--Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie
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