It does not escape me that one can wield Sword or Musket only upon one Enemy at a time, while Words may be employed upon any Number.
Hire a boat and try to catch her up. So long as I board her before we reach Le Havre, it should be all right
Do feel free to call upon me. My discretion may be relied upon, I do assure you. He bowed quaintly from his saddle. To the same extent as your loyalty to Colum MacKenzie? I said, arching my brows. The...
Death walks at night in the aisles of a sick ward, searching for those whose defenses are lowered, who may stray unwittingly into its path through loneliness and fear.
Crepuscle, the mysterious half-light that comes at both ends of the day, when the small secret things come out to feed. There
Can tell you that nobody knows what being married’s going to be like until you find yourself in the midst of it.
Away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. International financier...
As strong as lust, was the desire simply to be taken, to have him master me, quell my doubts in a moment of rough usage, take me hard and swiftly enough to make me forget myself.
Arms, ankles turning as I stepped in holes and stumbled on rocks. I had no room in my mind for any form of rational thought; I wanted only to get away from him. A heavy weight struck me hard in the
A well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact,
A well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so
[Jamie] shook his head, looking stunned. I canna tell whether ye mean to compliment my virility, Sassenach, or insult my morals, but I dinna care much for either suggestion. Murtagh told me women were...
You’re the world I have, she murmured, and then her breathing changed, and she took him down with her into safety.
You're the best man I ever met, I said. I only meant...it's such a strain, to try and live for two people. To try to make them fit your ideas of what's right...You do it for a child, of course, you ha...
You'll lie wi' me now, he said quietly. And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.
You underestimate your own merits, John—as always. Of course, nothing becomes manly virtue more than simple modesty.
You should know, Bree--I don't regret it. In spite of everything, I don't regret it. You'll know something now, of how lonely I was for so long, without Jamie. It doesn't matter. If the price of that...
You invent yourself...You look at other women-or men; you try on their lives for size. You take what you can use, and you look inside yourself for what you can't find elsewhere. And always...always......
You have to understand, I said. He—I—we were separated by the war, the Rising. Each of us thought the other was dead. I found him again only—my God, was it only four months ago?
You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.