It’s two hundred year, in the Highland tales—when folk fall asleep on fairy duns and end up dancing all night wi’ the Auld Folk; it’s usually two hundred year later when they come back to their own pl...
It’s a rare plant, he said, touching the sprig in my open hand. Flowers, fruit and leaves all together at the one time. The white flowers are for honor, and red fruit for courage—and the green leaves...
It's a bit undignified to get into, but it's verra easy to take offHow you get into it? I asked curiously.Well, ye lay it out on the ground, like this -he knelt, spreading the cloth so that it lined...
It was very, very peaceful, and all of a sudden I found myself shaking so hard that I had to sit down on the stream bank. Anytime. It could happen anytime, and just this fast. I wasn’t sure which seem...
It was very quiet here on the mountainside,but, quiet in the of hills and forests. A quiet that wasn't silent at all, but composed of constant tiny sounds. It was small buzzing in the gorse bush nearb...
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no te...
It starts out the same, but then, after a moment, he said, speaking softly, suddenly it’s as though I’ve a living flame in my arms. His touch grew firmer, outlining my lips and caressing the line of m...
In older, more primitive times (like these? asked another part of my mind), it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you clo...
I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile.True, I said, gritting my teeth as I wrapped a water-soaked napkin about...
I would. He kissed the top of my head. I saw Ian’s face; it was like his own flesh was being torn, each time Jenny screamed. My arms were around him, stroking the ridged scars on his back. I can bear...
I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not...
I prayed for guidance, kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament, he went on, and as I sat in the silence of the chapel, I seemed to see you as a shipwrecked traveler. And it seems to me that that is a go...
I knew an old lady in the Highlands once, who said the lines in your hand don’t predict your life; they reflect it.
I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. B...
I had seen even well-established marriages shatter under the strain of smaller things. And those that did not shatter, but were crippled by mistrust
I had realized many years before why patients are called that; it’s because a sick person is generally incapacitated, and thus obliged to put up with any amount of harassment and annoyance from person...
I had noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with theirs and fold you both in a blanket of unc...
I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.
I gledala sam, zarobljena, vezana za njega. Gledala sam, dok je rusio poslednju od svojih maski, pokazivao mi svoje dubine i rane svoje duse. Da sam mogla, plakala bih zbog njegove i zbog svoje povred...
I glanced upward once, to see Brianna glowing, still smiling from ear to ear. Jamie was behind her, also smiling, his cheeks wet with tears. He said something to her in husky Gaelic, and brushing the...