Fatigue and distress tended merely to sharpen Grey’s fine-cut features,
Don’t fart above your arsehole.
Do you know,' he said again softly, addressing his hands, 'what it is to love someone, and never - never! - be able to give them peace, or joy, or happiness?'He looked up then, eyes filled with pain....
Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me, a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you. Until we two burn to ashes.
Brianna was twenty-three. She might be no more than in her mid-thirties by the time Jem was fully independent. And if he no longer needed her care—she and Roger might possibly go back. Back to her own...
All right. Where are we going?
…but Sassenach—I am the true home of your heart, and I know that. He lifted my hands to his mouth and kissed my upturned palms, one and then the other, his breath warm and his beard-stubble soft on my...
—Vi a mi madre en su ataúd—dijo por fin—. Las mujeres le habían trenzado el pelo para que tuviera un aspecto decoroso, pero mi padre no lo permitió. Quería verla por última vez tal como era para él. F...
Could murder a plateful of eggs.
Bein’ cooped up indoors. The little finger waggled briefly.
Along. It was a week after we had set out, in a
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...
You can’t possibly have said what I think you said. Indeed I did, he said, his normal dry edge returning.
You are going to marry me, he said, a fierce edge in his voice. Are you aware that you are about to be arrested as a spy? I—no. I sat down again, as abruptly as I’d stood up. What … why? You would kno...
Which one are you sleeping with, the baron or his sister?Percy looked amused.Both, on occasion.Together?The smile widened. His teeth were still good, Grey saw, though somewhat stained by wine.Occasion...
Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like, he said, but God made hope. The stars willna burn out. He turned and, cupping my chin, kissed me gently. And nor will we.
We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/? Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his livi...
There aren’t any answers, only choices. I’ve made a number of them myself, and no one can tell me whether they were right or wrong. Master
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...
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...