Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.
Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.
Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed.That's the first law of thermodynamics, I said, wiping my nose.No, he said. That's faith.
My marriage to Jamie had been for me like the turning of a great key, each small turn setting in the intricate fall of tumblers within me. Bree had been able to turn that key as well, edging closer to...
My God, he thought, I’m going to die before I’ve been born.
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...
La curación proviene del paciente, no del médico.
I’d lived long enough to realize that fear wasn’t usually fatal—at least not by itself.
It's a terrible thing, to think it might be me that would be the threat, that I could kill you with my love-but it's true.
Indeed, Jamie said politely. I believe that was the Crown’s notion in executing my grandsire on Tower Hill after the Rising. Verra effective, too; all my relations have been quite well behaved since.
If your head thinks up mischief, your backside’s going to pay for it.
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...
I'm none so brave as I was before, ken? he said very softly. Not brave enough to live without ye anymore.
I write in bits and pieces, and glue them together, like a jigsaw puzzle.
I was becoming slightly bored
I suppose you must feel some bitterness against the historians, Roger ventured. All the writers who got it wrong--made him out to be a hero. I mean, you can't go anywhere in the Highlands without seei...
I sat down quietly in a corner with my glass of port, and kept quiet while Simon questioned Jamie once again about Charles Stuart’s situation and prospects.
I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday; not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away. I said, Lord, if I've ever had courage in my life be...
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...
I listen, she said simply. To what folk say—and what they don’t.