Because, Sassenach, he said, very dryly indeed, when ye’re a man, a good bit of what ye have to do is to draw up lines and fight other folk who come over them. Your enemies, your tenants, your childre...
Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart, I said cheerily, seizing the opening. The more you eat, the more you fart. The more you fart, the better you feel—so let’s have beans for every meal!
Aye, I see. Aye well, I suppose if I shall be in Scotland, and still married to you—then maybe ‘when’ doesna matter so much.
At the plantation, he said, ignoring me, there is a large open space at the rear of the house. It was a small clearing at first, and over the years I have enlarged it and finally made a lawn of it, bu...
At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my...
As the world turns toward winter and the nights grow long, people begin to wake in the dark. Lying in bed too long cramps the limbs, and dreams dreamt too long turn inward on themselves, grotesque as...
As I came up from the galley, the sun was going down into the ocean in a blaze that paved the western sea with gold like the streets of Heaven. I stopped for a moment, just a moment, transfixed by the...
Are you alright?No, I bumped my head. Rubbing the spot, I looked dazedly around the bare hallway. What did I bang it on? I demanded ungrammatically. head. he said, rather grumpily, I thought.
Anybody messes with the girls, we’ll take care of him right smart, the elder Wurm assured Ian. It’s not that hard, the other said honestly. Break just one of them bastards’ noses with a hoe handle and...
And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed.
And then, when he had told all he could, Fraser had laughingly revealed that the woman was his wife. They’d all laughed; he could hear the ribald Scottish voices now, hilarious in memory. Grey rolled...
And then it came to me, as one of the redcoats, knocked flat by a fleeing Scot, rose and shook his fist theatrically after the horses. Of course. A film! I shook my head at my own slowness. They were...
And once I got old enough for such a thing to be a possibility, he told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasn...
And if there was eternity, or even the idea of it, then perhaps Anselm was right; all things were possible.
And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you’ve a brain as well!
And found myself lying with my head in Jamie’s lap. And heard him saying softly, to himself or to me, For your sake, I will continue—though for mine alone … I would not.
An unfortunate affair of the heart! He smiled grimly, dipping his pen. Perhaps Hal had a greater sensitivity than he’d thought, in so describing it. But then, all his affairs had been unfortunate, sin...
An unaccustomed weed of jealousy sprang up in Jamie’s heart, stinging like nettles. He stamped firmly on it; he was fortunate indeed to know that his son enjoyed a loving relationship with his stepfat...
An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time
An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.