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 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...
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...
And the light was gone, and the air failed them. And so they lay down in the dark to die.
And his release began, deep inside me, without his moving, shivering through his body so that his arms trembled, the ruddy hairs quivering in the dim light, and he dropped his head with a sound like a...
And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wan...