I chose my way when I wed ye, though I kent it not at the time. But I chose, and cannot now turn back, even if I would.''Would you?' I looked into his eyes as I asked, and read the answer there. He sh...
I am going to be where you are for the rest of our lives, I said firmly. If that's a week or another forty years.Longer, he said, and smiled
How long is some time? Fifteen years, you said? Oh, a good deal longer than that. Isobel— He stopped abruptly, the smile vanishing. He hadn’t mentioned his dead wife before. You never saw her naked? I...
His hand came around to caress my breast. Even when I’ve just left ye, I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again. He cupped my face in the dark, thumbs...
His half-visible presence reminded me faintly of Jamie; he was nearly as tall as his uncle, and very nearly as strong, though still lean and gangling with adolescence. We
Her maternal feelings were unlikely to be assuaged by hearing that the marriage had been performed in the middle of the night on a West Indian beach by a disgraced—if not actually defrocked—priest, wi...
He took a deep breath, shut his eyes, and commended his soul to God. I have had carnal knowledge of your wife, he blurted. He had expected to die more or less instantaneously upon this utterance, but...
He blinked , and his eyes moved at last from her face, slowly taking in her appearance, and- with what seemed to her a new and horrified awareness- her height. My God, he croaked.
Fraser was quiet, occasionally withdrawn—but he relaxed in the presence of horses, and Grey felt a small relaxation of his own tension in seeing it. He had arranged for Jamie’s parole at Helwater beca...
Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.
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...
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.
Do you have any idea how mortifying it is to have your own mother standing up in front of everybody, drawing pictures of penises?
Do ye want me? he whispered. Sassenach, will ye take me--and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew? I felt a great wave of relief, mingled with fear. It ran from his hand on my shou...
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...
Do not forget to entertain strangers, Buck said in the same language, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Did that mean she had not cared deeply for any of her husbands? I wondered. Or only that she was a woman of great strength, capable of overcoming grief, not once, but over and over again?
Dear God, he said, still softly. I couldna look at ye, Sassenach, and keep my hands from you, nor have ye near me, and not want ye.
Damn, I said softly to myself. I had been fighting it for some time. Even before this ridiculous marriage, I had been more than conscious of his attraction. It had happened before, as it doubtless hap...
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.