I marched into the shop and bought the vases.
Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time, he said callously. Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?Absence, I said, dodging t...
All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.
A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely benign - or at least you hope so - but your are laying violent ha...
Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy.
Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.
Let me be enough,
I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.
He tolk both my hands in his, then, and kissed them - the left which still bore the gold ring of my marriage to Frank, and then the right, with his own silver ring..Da mi basia mille, he whispered, sm...
During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younger mercenaries the trick of falling asleep the night before a battle. Make yourself comfortable, exam...
Quite suddenly, Grey knew what to say. Queen’s knight, he said quietly. To queen two. It was, he knew, a dangerous opening. Fraser didn’t move, but Grey felt his sideways glance. After an instant’s he...
Chin—and there it was. I near beshit myself.
A redheaded person with an empty stomach was a walking time bomb. I
When you took me from the witch trial at Cranesmuir--you said then that you would have died with me, you would have gone to the stake with me, had it come to that!He grasped my hands, fixing me with a...
Oh. It’s Fraser. James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
Jamie… I only want to be where you are. Nothing else.
Jamie’s viewpoint is expressed almost entirely in metaphor: If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle. He’s using physical language,...