I mean to take my time about it, aye?
I like ye fat, Sassenach, he said softly. Fat and juicy as a plump wee hen. I like it fine.
I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, th...
I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn’t know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost.
Hodie mihi cras tibi. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Highland Clans office,
He wrapped his arms about his
He recognized the first by his stooped shoulders and the way his head jutted forward, the second by his square, solid seat and his easy, one-handed way with the reins. God be with ye, Englishman, he s...
He grinned wryly at his nephew. Ye’ll amount to something for your mother’s sake—if it kills us both.
For I give ye my spirit, 'til our life shall be done.
Faith is as powerful a force as science, he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, but far more dangerous.
Did you regret it? I asked. Not taking him up on his offer, I mean? Ten thousand times, at the very least, he assured me, breaking into a rueful grin. At the same time … refusing him was one of the fe...
And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?
The medical way for a two-month voyage.
Lugubriously,
And allowed
You cannot compel love, he said finally, nor summon it at will. Still less, he added ruefully, can you dismiss it.
You are safe, he said firmly. You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.
What is it, love? I whispered. Jamie, I do love you.I know it, he said quietly. I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye whi...
What I said to ye, before … that I kent ye loved me—