She must go with me, John, he said. There is no choice about it; she must. Grey’s glance flickered to me, then away, but not before I had seen the look of jealousy in his eyes. I felt sorry for him, b...
Wait, let me get that down. Primum: save…men. Secundo: do not…drop…weapon. Tertio—what’s the third thing on this list?Suck my prick, Grey said rudely. Ass.Percy promptly flipped the sketchbook shut an...
There was nothing but mist to his left and behind him, but to his right, he made out two or three large, bulky shapes, standing upright. Making his way slowly across the lumpy ground, he found that th...
His own words brought back to him the letters he had written now and then. The phantoms, as he thought of them: letters he’d written to Jamie Fraser—honest, conversational, heartfelt, and very real. N...
Again, yet from that minute that that occasion
Accoucheur
They do say that God protects fools—but I think even the Almighty will lose patience now and then.
He didn’t speak for a bit, but his weight drew me closer, like a moon pulled near to its planet. I lay quiet, my hand on him, my hip against his—flesh of his flesh.
So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
His most intimate keepsake was one that could not be lost or stolen, though. He flexed his left hand, where the thin white line of the letter C—carved a little crookedly, but still perfectly legible—s...
Was my future any more certain than hers? And did I not depend for my life upon a man bound to me—at least in part—by desire of my body? A faint wind breathed through the trees, and I hitched the blan...
He might have met Fraser in battle and taken a real and savage pleasure in killing or maiming him. But the inescapable fact was that so long as Fraser was his prisoner, he could not in honor harm the...
No mistake.
Of Jamie. God, how could I do it? Leave him
The world and each day in it is a gift, mo chridhe—no matter what tomorrow may be.
She supposed that it it perhaps not fair to quarrel with someone on the basis of what you thought they were thinking
This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with dreams and mystery.
Shell shock, they said in the First World War. Battle fatigue, in the Second. It’s what happens when you live through things you shouldn’t have been able to live through and can’t reconcile that knowl...
Shock was giving way to a nervous impulse to laugh. Ken his family? Not likely; and how should he explain that he was the grandson—six times over—of her own brother, Dougal? That he was, in fact, not...
Suppose—maybe medicines? They’re covered,
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