Never give anything away for free—but sometimes it pays to oil the wheels a bit.
Mm. You’d forgotten how to say anything except ‘I love you,’ but you said that a lot.
Men would eat horse droppings, if ye served them wi' butter.
Mama says the Beardsleys follow her around like dogs, but they don’t. They follow her like tame wolves.I thought Ian said it wasn’t possible to tame wolves.It isn’t.
Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.
It’s not too late, you know, she said. She smiled, teasing a little tremulously. You could still back out. It’s been too late for me since the day I saw you, he said gruffly.
In defense of King, country, and family, he would unhesitatingly have sacrificed his virtue to Nessie, had that been required. If it was a question of Olivia marrying a man with syphilis and half the...
In bed, she said calmly. I want you to come to bed with me.
If God makes man in His image, we all return the favor.
I'm honest enough to say that I dinna care what the right and wrong of it may be, so long as you're here wi' me, Claire, he said softly. If it was a sin for you to choose me...then I would go to the d...
I will have papers. And whether it is one George or the other who rules in time - this land will be ours. And yours, he added softly, raising his eyes to Brianna's. And your children's after you. I la...
I think there are times for men of peace—and a time for men of blood, as well.
I like ye fat, Sassenach, he said softly. Fat and juicy as a plump wee hen. I like it fine.
Highland Clans office,
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...
Gave me terrible cramps, and I had wind for days.
Fatigue and distress tended merely to sharpen Grey’s fine-cut features,
ENTER A SERPENT
Don’t be afraid,’ he whispered into my hair. ‘There’s the two of us now.
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.