You are my baby, and always will be. You won’t know what that means until you have a child of your own, but I tell you now, anyway—you’ll always be as much a part of me as when you shared my body and...
Yes, she said. Jamie's part of me. So are you. ... But neither of you is all of me, she said softly, back turned. I am... what I am. Doctor, nurse, healer, witch - whatever folk call it, the name does...
Yes, but— I began. So—he said authoritatively, holding up a finger to hush me—if you have been deprived of your earlier life, perhaps it is only that God has seen fit to bless you with another, that m...
Ye think of me, Jamie, and Jenny and Lallybroch. Ye’ll not see us, but we’ll be here nonetheless and thinking of you. Look up at night, and see the stars, and ken we see them, too. He
Ye must always give money for a new blade, he explained, half smiling. So it kens ye for its owner, and willna turn on ye.
Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.
Would it be better if I’d had daughters? she asked the mirror, in apparent earnestness.No, she answered herself. They’d only marry men, and there you are.
Would he have the courage to face the dreadful Highland charge? He couldn’t bring himself to mention his fears even to Hector. Hector loved him, but Hector was twenty, tall and muscular and fearless,...
Whereas, I chipped in, leaning forward and raising my own voice enough to be heard over the clop and creak of the horses, if harm comes to them because of some man, the satisfaction of blaming him wil...
Whatever they are, though, they must be exigent, to cause you to contemplate such drastic expedients. A slow smile grew on her lips, spreading into her eyes. I really like the way you talk, she said.
What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi' a fish whilst I was fighting for my life?
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow,...
Well, I'll tell ye, Sassenach, 'graceful' is possibly not the first word that springs to mind at the thought of you. He slipped an arm behind me, one hand large and warm around my silk-clad shoulder....
We currently enjoy the hospitality of the local smith, a gentleman named Heughan.
Tiptoeing silently up behind her in my stockinged feet, I shoved her headfirst into the armoire, and slammed the door on the heaving, shrieking mass beneath the pile of fallen dresses within. Turning...
Thought of the general drew his fragmented thoughts together, a magnet in a scatter of loose iron filings. Someone to depend on…a man to share the burden…he wanted that, above all things. Oh, God, he...
This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her?She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.
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?
They’re girls, she replied briefly. They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance. But