The Crown doesna pick the wrong man to hang, Sassenach, he said. More often than not, the man on the end of a rope deserves to be there. And I shouldna like to think I've helped a villain to go free.
To see the years touch ye gives me joy, Sassenach, he whispered, —for it means that ye live.
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...
Jealousy had nothing to do with logic.
The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.
Jesus H. Christ! I exclaimed. I felt it again, unbelieving, but there it was. You always said your head was solid bone, and I’ll be damned if you weren’t right. She shot you point-blank, and the blood...
Grey shook his head and, wheezing gently, one hand to his bruised ribs, got awkwardly to his feet and hobbled to the wing chair. You could … have helped, he said to Fraser. Ye managed brawly on your o...
Jemmy won’t get to go to Disneyland—but he’ll have that. A family that laughs—and millions of little lights in the trees.
He was pressing himself against the wall as though trying to get through it by osmosis.
Would you go down there, Roger? she asked softly. Jump overboard, dive in, go on down through that dark until your lungs were bursting, not knowing whether there are things with teeth and great heavy...
When had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?
When the day shall come, that we do part, he said softly, and turned to look at me, if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
I could know ye all my life, I think, and always love you.
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
Into a wolf? The wary dislike stamped
Je suis Prest
Juniper, Pennyroyal, Lady’s-vetch, … and the squat
Luceo Non Uro. ‘I shine, not burn,
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