The hardening spreads from the center, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until I am is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber.
The greylag mate for life? If ye kill a grown goose, hunting, ye must always wait, for the mate will come to mourn. Then ye must try to kill the second, too, for otherwise it will grieve itself to dea...
The difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.
That a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it’s his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I’d no right to burden a woman with the consequ...
Stitching, obviously wanting to rub the stinging site, but
Solitude was in its own way a balm for loneliness.
Small bottle of penicillin tablets.
Shove that filthy spike
She keeps takin’ me in—so I suppose she must be home.
River among most boatmen, I thought.
Ornamental yew bushes. There
Only joy in the doing of it, except for the one thing. The one consideration strong enough to outweigh Jamie’s pride, loom larger than his sense of manhood, than his threatened soul’s peace. Frank. Th...
Oh, wait. Turning, he seized the wig he’d taken off earlier from his desk and thrust it into Grey’s hands. Disguise, he said, and smiled briefly. You rather take the eye, John. Best if people don’t no...
Of the cup. Mmmfff! Swallow, he said, clapping a hand tightly across my mouth and ignoring both my frenzied squirming and the muffled sounds of protest I was making. He was a lot stronger than I was,...
Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, he babbled, crossing
Newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and
My head from his shoulder and said, Why did you ask me that
Met with you. Captain Randall said you were stealing cattle,
Massive edifice, with its impenetrable walls, its monumental gate, and its red-coated guards, I began to have doubts. What
Make a difference? An instant’s panic, as she tried to visualize