Jamie. I want you to mark me.What? he said, startled.The tiny sgian dhu he carried in his stocking was lying within reach, its handle of carved staghorn darkagainst the piled clothing. I reached for i...
Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat wit...
It occurred to me—belatedly, as so many things did these days—that John’s intimate memories belonged to him, as well. I didn’t mean to pry, I said apologetically. He smiled faintly, but with real humo...
When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings; I was by and large a grubby child, with a blissful disregard for filth of any kind.It wa...
I put back my head, looking up at the deep black sky swimming with hot stars. If you knew they were really balls of flaming gas, you could imagine them as Van Gogh saw them, without difficulty . . . a...
Hasta ese entonces siempre había creído que la tendencia a desmayarse de las mujeres del siglo dieciocho se debía a los corsés apretados, Pero no, se debía a la estupidez de los hombres de aquel siglo...
You'd forgive me for Claire - but not for killing your . . . men. He glanced at the two Craddocks, spotty as a pair of raisin puddings and - Grey's look implied - likely no brighter.
It is for this reason that a scientist constructs hypotheses—suggestions for the cause of an observation. But a hypothesis must never be confused with an explanation—with proof.
Dialogue doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.
A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.
I leaned back on my elbows and basked in the warming spring sun. There was a curious peace in this day, a sense of things working quietly in their proper courses, nothing minding the upsets and turmoi...
I lay still, wondering exactly what was the matter with me. Or rather, not what, but why. I knew by now what it was, all right; it was jealousy. I was indeed jealous; an emotion I hadn’t felt for some...
Does it ever stop, Claire? The wanting?
Sometimes twenty years seemed like an instant, and sometimes it seemed like a very long time indeed.
When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.
Randall! Of course! Roger smacked himself on the forehead, and felt his cheeks grow hot at Brianna’s giggle. You’re going to think me a complete fool, but I’ve only just realized who you are.
Next time I marry someone, I’ll pick a lass who wakes up cheerful in the morning,
I estimated the ambient humidity at roughly a thousand percent, but tipped a little of my sweetened coffee into the saucer and blew on it nonetheless.
How was yer first time, Jamie? Did ye bleed? shouted Rupert
I said I don’t propose to die, William assured him. And I don’t need help.
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