No people at all, though, and that was giving him a queer feeling in his water. Aye, there was a war on, right enough, and many of the menfolk were gone, but the farmhouses hadn’t been sacrificed to t...
My own smile lingered as I watched her, and whispered to her sleep-deaf ears, as I had so many times before, God, you are so like him.
My Son-in-law astutely observes that a Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases,
Mmphm, he said. Hell of a choice, there. A stick up the cock, or a finger up the backside, eh?
Men would eat horse droppings, if ye served them wi' butter.
Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d heard it and thought he asked for help in doing what had to be done. But that wasn’t what he’d meant at all...
Lord John’s response to the revelation of my identity was both puzzling and disturbing; you would think the man had seen a ghost. I squinted at my violet reflection, admiring the glitter of the black-...
Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact,
Juniper, Pennyroyal, Lady’s-vetch, … and the squat
Jews are— He made an equivocal gesture, palm flattened. But they dinna really hunt them in France, or exile them anymore, and the captain says they dinna even arrest them, so long as they keep quiet....
It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happening of a given moment became less important. I could see, perhaps, how one could draw back a little, seek some...
It was a leap of faith—to throw one’s heart across a gulf, and trust another to catch it.
It was a hot summer—there wasn’t any other kind in Boston
I was used to paying a great deal of attention to my hands, one way and another. They were my tools, my channel of touch, mingling the delicacy and strength by which I healed. They had a certain beaut...
I have loved ye since I saw you, Sassenach, he said very quietly, holding my eyes with his own, bloodshot and lined with tiredness but very blue. I will love ye forever. It doesna matter if ye sleep w...
I had noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of uncons...
I had no need to ask or to wonder whether he would keep his word. He had freed me once from Wentworth, because he had given his word to do so. His word, once given, was his bond. Jack Randall was a ge...
I didn’t want to … to have to ask him to defend me. He stared at her, his face blank with incomprehension. He shook his head slowly, not taking his eyes away from her. What in God’s name d’ye think a...
I could feel the heat glowing from him, with that sudden rise of temperature which presages falling asleep in very young children.
I can bear pain, myself, but I could not bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.