Double, double toil and trouble, he chanted under his breath. Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, in the caldron boil and bake. Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue o...
Dorothea is a Grey, he pointed out. Any member of her family would pause on the gallows to exchange witty banter with the hangman before graciously putting the noose about his neck with his own hands.
Don’t you go up on the roof in that! I exclaimed, sitting up abruptly. That’s your good woolen shirt! He halted by the door, glared briefly at me, then, with the rebuking expression of an early Christ...
Don’t tell me you didn’t think of that when you decided to come here.
Do ye not understand?he said, in near desparation. I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye! He honestly thought it mattered.
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 the spoon for a moment. And fonder. If anything’s growin...
Do I frighten ye, Sassenach? - No. It's only... the first time... I didn't think it would be forever. I meant to go, then. - And ye did go, and came again. You're here, there's no more that matters, t...
Despite the disorder, he knew where the decanters were kept, and quickly had his guests supplied with whisky. He’d put quite a lot of soda in Brianna’s, but noticed that she sipped at it as though her...
Delay for a few seconds longer, Mr. Fraser, and you may well go back to being dead. John had gone to the window, peering down into the street. He turned, and I saw that his face was pale but glowing l...
Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's left ear. Jamie rolled his eyes heavenward, but shrugged and obligingly sang a no...
Damn Frank! he said ferociously. Damn all Randalls! Damn Jack Randall, and damn Mary Hawkins Randall, and damn Alex Randall—er, God rest his soul, I mean, he amended hastily, crossing himself.
Ci sono cose che io non posso dire a te, almeno non ancora. E non insisterò affinché tu mi riveli i tuoi segreti. Però ti chiedo questo: quando mi dici qualcosa, fa che sia la verità. E io ti prometto...
Catholics don’t believe in divorce, Bree had informed him once. We do believe in murder. There’s always Confession, after all.
By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.
But we do not fear silence, for often God speaks loudest in the quiet of our hearts. And
But the future reaches out to us, as does the past, and all times are the present.
But here, he said, so softly I could barely hear him, here in the dark, with you … I have no name.
But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says I am, and forms the core of personality.
But do ye not see how verra small a thing is the notion of death, between us two, Claire? he whispered.
But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it. So.