Roger Wakefield: ésta es mi hija, Brianna. Brianna Randall dio un paso adelante con una sonrisa tímida.
Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad.You do remember your father?No. I remember yours.
Let’s go. Jamie’s hand was firm on my arm, and I made no protest. Following Jared, guarded by the sailors, we stole away from the quay, surreptitious as though we had started the fire.
I wouldna tell ye if I did, he said, just as quietly. But I don’t. Would you warn him—if you could? Grey asked. He oughtn’t, but was possessed by curiosity. I would, Fraser replied without hesitation....
It's like a little fortress, where the most private part of you lives - maybe it's your soul, maybe just that bit that makes you yourself and not anyone else.
We stood wrapped in each other’s arms, taking comfort from our family below, yearning for the others we might never see again, at once at home and homeless, balanced on a knife edge of danger and unce...
You are mine, it had said. Mine! And I will not let you go.
She eyed her brother, standing by the window with his legs braced wide apart, hands on the sill and back stubbornly set against her. She bit her lip and a calculating look came over her face. Quick as...
We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway.
Looking down on the assembly, standing patiently in the drizzle awaiting a verdict, I suddenly had a vivid understanding of something. Like so many, I had heard, appalled, the reports that trickled ou...
We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we h...
Lord John William Grey, aged sixteen and filled to the brim with regimental notions of gallantry and noble purpose, bruised, shaken, and fighting the pain of his broken arm, had tried to bargain, to s...
It was very, very peaceful, and all of a sudden I found myself shaking so hard that I had to sit down on the stream bank. Anytime. It could happen anytime, and just this fast. I wasn’t sure which seem...
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon...
Are you alright?No, I bumped my head. Rubbing the spot, I looked dazedly around the bare hallway. What did I bang it on? I demanded ungrammatically. head. he said, rather grumpily, I thought.
But we are here, all of us. And we're here because I love you, more than the life that was mine. Because I believed you loved me the same way...will you tell me that's not true?No, he said after a mom...
Ma chère, I serve a man who multiplied the loaves and fishes—he smiled, nodding at the pool, where the swirls of the carps’ feeding were still subsiding—who healed the sick and raised the dead. Shall...
Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people. There's a clan stone out there with the name of MacKenzie carved on it, and a good many of my relatives under it. I don't feel q...
Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases,
Money is a good bridle, but a weak rein.
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