There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark...
He came toward us, looking worried. As the birth grew closer, we had both been edgy; Frank irritable and myself terrified, having no idea what might happen between us, with the appearance of Jamie Fra...
I married a lady and she became a whore. I cannot complain if it should be the other way about this time.You think I’m a whore, do you? She wasn’t sure whether to be amused or insulted. Perhaps both.D...
Movement at the door of the cabin, and a small figure that I recognized as Amy Higgins appeared. The tall woman pulled off her hat and waved it, her long red hair streaming out like a banner in the wi...
When you kissed me like that well maybe you weren't so sorry to be marrying me after all.
You asked me if I thought it was worth it. I don’t know. But it is my duty, regardless.
It took two days, and God kens well that I recall every second of those days—yet it seems that I lost her between one heartbeat and the next. And I—I keep lookin’ for her there, in that space between.
If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying to me about it-then everything I've done and everything I've been-my whole life-has been a lie. And...
The mere contemplation of revelation and the loss of its possibility, though, had shown him something important. Stephan von Namtzen both attracted and aroused him, but it was not because of his own u...
I was of an age, after all, where … Well, on the other hand, he presumably didn’t have the same instinctive reactions that the majority of men did, in terms of feminine attractions. Which rather left...
He thought of that now and wondered briefly just what Jamie Fraser would do, if made the recipient of some particularly florid sentiment of a personal nature, with Grey safely out of neck-breaking ran...
You don’t forget. You simply get to the point where you don’t care what birth will feel like; anything is better than being pregnant for an instant longer. I’d reached that point roughly two weeks bef...
Don’t fart above your arsehole.
Thinking I meant to snatch this treat for myself, but I pushed
Thy life’s journey lies along its own path, Ian, she said, and I cannot share thy journey—but I can walk beside thee. And I will.
Fatigue and distress tended merely to sharpen Grey’s fine-cut features,
The moon was beginning to rise when they set out, and a good thing, too, Brianna thought. Even with the big, lopsided gold orb sailing up out of a cradle of stars and shedding its borrowed radiance ov...
He gave me a look, strongly suggesting that if one of us was indeed odd, he didn’t think it was himself. Gentlemanly instincts suppressed any remark he might have made to this effect, though. Will you...
You can’t possibly have said what I think you said. Indeed I did, he said, his normal dry edge returning.
Well, he is human. And perhaps he’s not a monster yet.
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