I’m hale enough, he said. And with luck, may be so for a good many years yet—but not forever, Sassenach. I ha’ fought wi’ sword and dirk many times, but to every warrior comes the day when his strengt...
It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.
It was another hour before the door opened again, this time to admit the Governor. He was still handsome and neat as a white camellia, but definitely beginning to turn brown round the edges. I set the...
It had occurred to me briefly to wonder why he had worn his kilt this morning, instead of changing to breeks; the crimson tartan might be quite literally a red flag to a bull, flaunted thus before an...
In war, government and their armies were a threat, but it was so often the neighbors who damned or saved you
If ye were no longer there—or somewhere— he said very softly, then the sun would no longer come up or go down. He lifted my hand and kissed it, very gently. He laid it, closed around my ring, upon my...
If needs must, she could do those things for herself-or find another man. And yet...she needed him-would mourn his loss if it came. Perhaps forever. In his present vulnerable mood, that knowledge seem...
If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth, his adoptive father had told him once. You may not know what it is, mind, he’d added with a smile. Bu...
I will find you, he whispered in my ear. I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you--then that is my punishment,which I have earned for my crimes. For I...
I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that he could cut the rope. He quit grappling, and clutched me so har...
I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I don't know how long we sat there on the dusty floor, crying in each others arms with the longing...
I love you, he murmured. Oh, Bree, I do love you. She didn’t answer, but a hand floated up from the dark and lay along his cheek, gentle as a tendril of seaweed. She kept it there while he took her, l...
I have lived through a fucking world war, I said, my voice low and venomous. I have lost a child. I have lost two husbands. I have starved with an army, been beaten and wounded, been patronized, betra...
I am improvising a brassiere, I said with dignity. I don’t mean to ride sidesaddle through the mountains wearing a dress, and if I’m not wearing stays, I don’t mean my breasts to be joggling all the w...
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
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.
He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden...
For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary
Fois shìorruidh thoir dha, he echoed. God rest his soul.
Feelings aren't truth.