Careful! I said. Don’t twist like that, or your dressing will come off! What are you trying to do? Get my plaid loose to cover you, he replied. You’re shivering. But I canna do it one-handed. Can ye r...
Cirein Croin!
Claire’s hands moved when she talked, rising long and white in the air, as though she would catch the future between them and give it shape, would hand Jamie her thoughts as she spoke them, smooth and...
Come on! he said, grunting as he shifted the Chinaman’s slippery form for a better grip. They’ll be after us any moment!
Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me, a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you. Until we two burn to ashes.
Coming back, he saw the dark spots on the back of Jamie’s shirt, blotches where fresh blood had seeped through the bandages. The sight filled him with fury, as well as fear. He’d seen such things; the...
Continentals on it, Lord John
Cows? he asked, Was it really cows, or was I dreaming?
D'ye think I don't know? he asked softly. It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.
Damn you, Sassenach! his voice said, from a very great distance. His voice was choked with passion. Dam you! I swear if ye die on me, I'll kill you!
Did ye know that the silkies put aside their skins when they come ashore, and walk like men? And if ye find a silkie’s skin and hide it, he—or she— he added, fairly, canna go into the sea again, but m...
Do me the one favor, Sassenach, he said, draping the heavy velvet over my shoulders. Take a larger fan.
Do not forget to entertain strangers, Buck said in the same language, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Do ye want me to be a horse, a bear, or a dog? A hedgehog. A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love? he demanded. No, I thought. I won’t. I will not. But I did. Very carefully, I replied, gi...
Don’t you touch me! I snapped. Just tell me—do you think, on the evidence of a strange man happening to glance up at my window, that I’ve had some flaming affair with one of my patients? Frank got out...
Eejit, Ian said. What did ye tell her that for? Now she thinks ye’re a Jew. Jamie’s mouth fell open in shock. What, me? How, then? he demanded, looking down at himself. He’d meant his Highland dress,...
El Tiempo es una de las muchas cosas que la gente atribuye a Dios. Siempreestá ahí, preexistente, y no tiene final. Existe la noción de que es todopoderoso,puesto que nada puede oponerse al tiempo, ¿n...
Eres sangre de mi sangre y huesos de mis huesos.Te doy mi cuerpo para que los dos seamos uno.Te doy mi espíritu para que los dos seamos uno.
Euterpe, he blurted, and I stopped dead, jarred to the backbone. What? I whispered. What? Lost, he said, in a voice that wasn’t his own. Lost. With all hands. No, I said, trying for reason. No, it’s n...
Even if that were true, I said, struggling to keep my own voice level, why the bloody hell would I marry you? Let alone why you would want to marry me, which I don’t believe for an instant. Believe it...
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