Well, from what I have heard of the Scotch Highlanders, there is little to choose between them and the red men for barbarous conduct.Nonsense, said Jamie, sounding not the least offended. The red sava...
Well, a marriage between Friends is … between the Friends marrying. No clergyman, I mean, and no specific prayer or service. The two Friends marry each other, rather than it being considered a sacrame...
Well, I'll tell ye, Sassenach, graceful is possibly not the first word that springs to mind at the thought of you. But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul. And, Sassenach, your face is my heart.
Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like, he said, but God made hope. The stars willna burn out.
Well, I say it is the place of science only to observe, he said. To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not beca...
Well, I don’t suppose it’s an impt—impeddy—impediment, after all. Not as though he’d lost his cock, I mean. He hasn’t, has he?
We've ghosts enough between us, Sassenach. If the evils of the past canna hinder us-neither then shall any fears of the future. We must just must put things behind us and get on. Aye?
We thought you were dead, you bloody arsehole! he said, furious. Both of us! Dead! And we—we—took too much to drink one night—very much too much … We spoke of you … and … Damn you, neither one of us w...
We stood wrapped in each other’s arms, taking comfort from our family below, yearning for the others we might never see again, at once at home and homeless, balanced on a knife edge of danger and unce...
We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we h...
We believe the light of Christ is present in all men—though in some cases, perceiving it is somewhat difficult,
We are bound,you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.One large hand rose to stroke my hair. D'ye mind the blood vow that I swore ye when we wed? Yes,I think so.'Blood of my blood,b...
Was my future any more certain than hers? And did I not depend for my life upon a man bound to me—at least in part—by desire of my body? A faint wind breathed through the trees, and I hitched the blan...
Wait, let me get that down. Primum: save…men. Secundo: do not…drop…weapon. Tertio—what’s the third thing on this list?Suck my prick, Grey said rudely. Ass.Percy promptly flipped the sketchbook shut an...
Two hundred years from now, she had—I will? she thought wildly—stood in front of this portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, furiously denying the truth that it showed. Ellen MacKenzie looked out...
Twilight was coming on, and so was a storm. In the eerie light beneath the clouds, even the thoroughly modern houses along the road looked as ancient and as sinister as the weathered Pictish stone tha...
To take responsibility for the welfare of others made me feel less victimized by the whims of whatever impossible fate had brought me here,
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 have ye with me again--to talk wi' you--to know I can say anything, not guard my words or hide my thoughts--God, Sassenach, he said, the Lord knows I am lust-crazed as a lad, and I canna keep my ha...
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...