You don’t mind, if he … takes other lovers? Or he you, come to that?
You don’t forget. You simply get to the point where you don’t care what birth will feel like; anything is better than being pregnant for an instant longer. I’d reached that point roughly two weeks bef...
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.
You are going to marry me, he said, a fierce edge in his voice. Are you aware that you are about to be arrested as a spy? I—no. I sat down again, as abruptly as I’d stood up. What … why? You would kno...
Why d’ye talk to yourself? It assures me of a good listener,
Which one are you sleeping with, the baron or his sister?Percy looked amused.Both, on occasion.Together?The smile widened. His teeth were still good, Grey saw, though somewhat stained by wine.Occasion...
What I say to thee now is that I do love thee. And if thee hunts at night, thee will come home.
We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/? Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his livi...
Ute McGillivray looked like a Valkyrie on a starchy diet;
Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach, he said softly. I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it.
Thy life’s journey lies along its own path, Ian, she said, and I cannot share thy journey—but I can walk beside thee. And I will.
They
Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred, and a Thousand more.
The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.
The moon was beginning to rise when they set out, and a good thing, too, Brianna thought. Even with the big, lopsided gold orb sailing up out of a cradle of stars and shedding its borrowed radiance ov...
The mere contemplation of revelation and the loss of its possibility, though, had shown him something important. Stephan von Namtzen both attracted and aroused him, but it was not because of his own u...
The impulse to touch a sleeping child never fades, no matter that the child is a good deal larger than her mother, and a woman - if a young one - in her own right.
That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie
Strength of bone and fire of mind, all wrapped around a core of steel-hard purpose that would make him a deadly projectile, once set on any course.