We believe the light of Christ is present in all men—though in some cases, perceiving it is somewhat difficult,
Two things weren’t. The silver bracelet he had given her—and her grandmother’s pearls. Jesus bloody Christ. He looked again, just to be sure, dumping out the glittering junk and spreading it on his co...
Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach,’ he said softly. ‘I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it.’ The
To this point, he could not really have said that he loved William. Feel the terror of responsibility for him, yes. Carry thought of him like a gem in his pocket, certainly, reaching now and then to t...
To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct. And I feared I did not have it, and fearing, was ashamed.
To my surprise, it was Lord John. But a Lord John I had never seen before. He was not so much disheveled as shattered, everything in order save his face. What? I said, deeply alarmed. What’s happened?
Time makes very little difference to the basic realities of life
Thy life's journey lies along its own path, Ian, she said, and I cannot share thy journey - but I can walk beside thee. And I will.The woman standing behind them in the line heaved a deep, contented s...
Thus invited, I could hardly not look at him. And in all truth, I wanted to, out of simple curiosity. He was trim and lightly built, but muscular and solid. A little softness at the waist, but no fat—...
Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and n...
This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea. He'd felt the need before, often, often, in their years apart. But why...
This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?
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They’re girls, she replied briefly. They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance. But
They’re girls, she replied briefly. They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance.
These were people like that. The ones who cared so terribly much—enough to risk everything, enough to change and do things. Most people aren’t like that, you know. It isn’t that they don’t care, but t...
There was another reason. The main one. Reason? I said stupidly. Why I married you. Which was? I don’t know what I expected him to say, perhaps some further revelation of his family’s contorted affa...
There was a sudden whoosh from above, followed immediately by a blur before my eyes and a dull thud. Captain Randall was on the ground at my feet, under a heaving mass that looked like a bundle of old...
There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more than the niff of ancient squalor and an absence of drains.
There must have been some sound that made me look up, but I wasn’t aware of having raised my head. John Grey was standing in the doorway of my room. His neckcloth was missing and his shirt hung limp o...