We will marry each other.
We thought you were dead, you bloody arsehole! he said, furious. Both of us! Dead! And we—we—took too much to drink one night—very much too much … We spoke of you … and … Damn you, neither one of us w...
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...
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.
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...
We are bound,you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.One large hand rose to stroke my hair. D'ye mind the blood vow that I swore ye when we wed? Yes,I think so.'Blood of my blood,b...
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...
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...
Two hundred years from now, she had—I will? she thought wildly—stood in front of this portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, furiously denying the truth that it showed. Ellen MacKenzie looked out...
Turd-eating son of a flying tortoise
Tu ești curajul meu, așa cum eu sunt conștiința ta, mi-a șoptit. Tu ești inima mea, iar eu, compasiunea ta. Singuri, nu suntem întregi. Nu știai asta, englezoaico?
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
Took his lug and a wee bit o’ the side of his face, as well. Not that it will ha’ impaired his beauty ower-much, the ugly wee pusbag.
To take responsibility for the welfare of others made me feel less victimized by the whims of whatever impossible fate had brought me here,
To see the years touch ye gives me joy, Sassenach, he whispered, —for it means that ye live.
To have ye with me again--to talk wi' you--to know I can say anything, not guard my words or hide my thoughts--God, Sassenach, he said, the Lord knows I am lust-crazed as a lad, and I canna keep my ha...
Three days before his scheduled departure, he rose in the morning with the conviction that he must speak with Fraser, somehow. Not in the stiff manner of an interview between paroled prisoner and offi...
Thou goest home this night to thy home of winter, To thy home of autumn, of spring, and of summer; Thou goest home this night to thy perpetual home, To thine eternal bed, to thine eternal slumber. Sle...
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...
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.