I'll scream! Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.
True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.
Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing---as he knew of me--that he will protect you with his li...
There's no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands.
I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. And if he was a bit battered by circumstance, that merely added to his charm.You're a very hard person...
Well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.
A man should pay tribute to your body, he said softly... For you are beautiful, and that is your right.
If I die, he whispered in the dark, dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.
He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.
Jaime, you must be half-deadHe laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm hand on the small of my back.A lot more than half, Sassenach. I'm knackered, and my cock's the only thing too stupi...
I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different....
How did you keep this by you? Grey demanded abruptly. You were searched to the skin when you were brought back.The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. I swallowed it,...
Have you anything to say to me now, Madam? he demanded. Your wig is crooked, I said, and closed my eyes again.
That dog is a wolf, is he not?''Aye, well, mostly.'A small flash of hazel told him not to quibble.'And yet he is thy boon companion, a creature of rare courage and affection, and altogether a worthy b...
My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser
He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.
Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.
Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind, when you walk alone.All the time the ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future. We look...
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