I am a Highlander, Jamie said bleakly. He glanced once more at the far bank, where occasional glimpses of tartan showed through the mist, and then back. The shouting echoed from the fog. And I am the...
How many 'inventions' are really memories, of the things we once knew?
His heart was beating very erratically; perhaps it would conveniently stop. He waited for a moment to allow it to do this if it liked, but it went on cheerfully thumping away.
Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.
He’d told Jamie Fraser the truth—the whole bloody truth—and
Her name was Geneva Dunsany, Grey said. My wife’s sister.
He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.
He who throws dirt is losing ground,
He said, ‘If you’re sizable, half the men ye meet will fear ye, and the other half will want to try ye. Knock one down,’ he said, ‘and the rest will let ye be. But learn to do it fast and clean, or yo...
He kissed my forehead gently. Loving you has put me through hell more than once, Sassenach; I'll risk it again, if need be. Bah, I said. And you think loving you has been a bed of roses, do you? This...
He had been attacked once, in camp somewhere in Scotland, in the days after Culloden. Someone had come upon him in the dark, and taken him from behind with an arm across his throat. He had thought he...
He bent and kissed me briefly, then headed for the door. Just short of it, though, he turned back. The, um, sperms ... he said, a little awkwardly. Yes? Can ye not take them out and give them decent b...
Having ensured the health of his bowels by disposing of his parritch in short order, he proceeded to add a French breakfast of buttered rolls and steaming chocolate on top of it.
God kens well enough that boys need to be smacked, or he’d no fill them sae full o’ the de’il.
Go down, she said, and tell them the MacKenzies are here.
ENTER A SERPENT
Don’t be afraid,’ he whispered into my hair. ‘There’s the two of us now.
Does it ever stop? The wanting you? His hand came around to caress my breast. Even when I’ve just left ye, I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.
Do ye want me? he whispered. Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?
Dared he ask about George? Not a direct inquiry, that wouldn’t do, but a reference to the family, asking whether his mother had happened to encounter Lady Everett lately, and might he ask to be rememb...