The light faded slowly, retreating through the trees. The thick mossy trunks grew dense with shadow, edges still rimmed with a fugitive light that hid among the leaves, green shadows shifting with the...
The greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help.
The big Scot had sat by the man’s side all night, listening, encouraging, comforting. Grey had stood by the door, not wishing to frighten the man by the sight of his uniform, both surprised and oddly...
That’s not what I asked, she said, a noticeable edge in her voice. I asked why my father shot him.He sighed. She could have found gainful employment with the Spanish Inquisition, he thoughtruefully; n...
That’s not right, Willie was saying, turning to look up at him. You cast with the left hand. I saw you. Aye, but I’m cack-handed, my lord. Most men would cast with the right. Cack-handed? Willie’s mou...
That only by forgiveness could she forget—and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.
That is what God is for. Worry doesna help—prayer does. Sometimes,
Still, that would not solve the problem; Percy would merely languish in prison until such time as Grey was recovered enough to testify. No, he decided, Hal’s response would more likely be to knock Gre...
Still, as the Mass went on, things seemed more normal; there were Bible readings, quite familiar, and then the accustomed descent into the vaguely pleasant boredom of a sermon, in which the inevitable...
Sometimes it would be months—even a year or more—between episodes, and we would live in peace together. But then it would happen again; the silent phone calls, the too-excused absences, the late night...
Sometimes a shadow rises, and death lies nameless in the dark.
Someone, he thought rather crossly, ought to see him and tell him just what the sentence was, until he should have suffered enough to be purified, and at last to enter the Kingdom of God. Whether he w...
Snow was falling, and winter had come; the season of fire. Candles and hearth fire, that lovely, leaping paradox, that destruction contained but never tamed, held at a safe distance to warm and enchan...
Sleep, O sleep in the calm of all calm, Sleep, O sleep in the guidance of guidance, Sleep, O sleep in the love of all loves, Sleep, O beloved, in the Lord of life, Sleep, O beloved, in the God of life...
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...
Sassenach, he said against my shoulder, a moment later. Mm? Who in God’s name is John Wayne? You are, I said. Go to sleep. I really needed that laugh to break the tears.
Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hun...
Roger Wakefield: ésta es mi hija, Brianna. Brianna Randall dio un paso adelante con una sonrisa tímida.
Right. You’re not. But I would appreciate it very much if you did. And why did you show me the picture if you didn’t mean me to know? I added. Since I know that much, I’ll certainly find out the rest...
Please, she said, don’t mention Jamie Fraser to my daughter.