No, he said defiantly. Go ahead and kill me.
What is it ye have there, Murtagh?
Thee is my wolf, she’d said to him. And if thee hunts at night, thee will come home. And sleep at thy feet, he’d replied.
He’d told Jamie Fraser the truth—the whole bloody truth—and
Not that my watching out was likely to do a lot of good, I thought; every second man on the dock looked like an assassin to me.
Those who are led of the spirit to follow a different path, let us say, she said, a little tersely. And, no, they wouldn’t. But the point I am making is that when such a group breaks away over some po...
I’ve yet to see the auld woman believes in witches, nor the young one, neither. It’s men think there must be ill-wishes and magic in women,
I’ve said often enough, and the good Lord kens weel enough that boys were meant to be smacked, or he’d not ha’ filled ’em sae full o’ the de’il.
Neighborhood—his name’s pronounced ‘Kirry,’ but it’s spelt ‘C-i-r-e.’
Hodie mihi cras tibi. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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.
Does it ever stop? The wanting you? 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.
The simple act of writing Fraser’s name had given him a sense of connexion, and he realized that the desperate need for such connexion was what had driven him to write it.
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered.
You alone, hold all my heart, whole in your hands. And you know that.
Wee surprise for ye. Fergus! Fergus, likewise beaming, came from behind a wagon, ushering a slight man with windblown,
Now, then. What does ‘fucking’ mean?
Marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it.
It’s only when ye ken ye can say no that it takes courage.
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