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Indeed," Jamie said politely. "I believe that was the Crown's notion in executing my grandsire on Tower Hill after the Rising. Verra effective, too; all my relations have been quite well behaved since."
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Sometimes our best actions result in things that are most regrettable.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart--and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?"
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Diana Gabaldon |
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A forced oath canna bind a man, though, or keep him from his knowledge of right.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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People are gregarious by necessity.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Pleasure?" Her voice rose behind me, incredulous. "Ye mean some women like it?"
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But to return to thy question, we consider our life here on earth to be a sacrament, lived in the light of Christ. There may be an afterlife, but as no one has come back to say so, it's a matter of speculation, left to each person individually.
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While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl's heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish parents, such as property, income, a left hand, and a last name.
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Rain was roaring on the tin roof now, and lightning struck close by, blue-white and sharp with ozone. We rode it together, forked and light-blind, breathless, and the thunder rolled through our bones.
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the hardening spreads from the center, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until "I am" is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber."
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Aye, lass, courage like that is uncommon rare. It wasna ignorance, mind; he'd just seen two men flogged and he knew the same was coming to him. It's just he had made up his mind there was no help for it. Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way for a Scotsman, ye ken, but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.
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said. "And how is Oggy today?"
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I think perhaps the greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help.
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Respectability had its uses. I wondered idly how many spymasters had thought of using elderly ladies? You didn't hear about old women as spies--but then again, that might merely indicate how good they were at it.
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I have noticed," she said slowly, "that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is"
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still fine
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L'amore per un figlio non puo essere libero: sin dai primi segni di movimento nell'utero germoglia in noi una devozione tanto potente quanto viscerale, irresistibile come l'atto stesso della nascita. Ma, per quanto potente esso sia, si tratta pur sempre di un amore fatto di controllo; si diventa guardiani, protettori, custodi: c'e tantissima passione in questo, certo, ma mai abbandono. Avevo sempre, sempre dovuto bilanciare la compassione c..
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life
love
jamie-fraser
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I had no need to ask or to wonder whether he would keep his word. He had freed me once from Wentworth, because he had given his word to do so. His word, once given, was his bond. Jack Randall was a gentleman.
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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."
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I estimated the ambient humidity at roughly a thousand percent, but tipped a little of my sweetened coffee into the saucer and blew on it nonetheless.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Pointless to spend too much time in planning, anyway, given the propensity of life to make sudden left-hand turns without warning.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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What . . . fellow?" The wind was cool, but I could see sweat trickling down the back of Jamie's neck, dampening his collar and plastering the linen between his shoulders. Duff didn't answer immediately. A look of speculation flickered in his small, deep-set eyes. "Don't think about it, Duff," Roger said, softly, but with great assurance. "I can reach ye from here with an oar, ken?" "Aye?" Duff glanced thoughtfully from Jamie, to Roger, and ..
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clever
drown
roger-mackenzie
seasick
threatening
jamie-fraser
seasickness
threats
drowning
gun
threat
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The tooth had belonged to a gentleman named Murphy from Ellis Ward, the one we lived in. I say "had belonged" because I had the badly broken and infected bicuspid out of Mr. Murphy's head before he could have said Jack Robinson, though he was in such pain that he could barely recall his own name, let alone Jack's. Mr."
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Besides, what would you do with the body, if you killed him? the logical side of my mind inquired. He wouldn't fit in the cupboard, let alone the hidey-hole.
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Te imaginas? --murmuro en algun momento de la madrugada--. ?Sabes lo duro que es estar asi con alguien y no encontrar jamas su secreto? --Si --respondi pensando en Frank--. Lo se. --Lo suponia. --Me toco el pelo--. Y de pronto... recuperar la seguridad. Decir y hacer lo que quieras, sabiendo que es lo correcto. --Decir <> y decirlo con todo el corazon --anadi suavemente. Sin saber como, me descubri acurrucada contra el, con la cabez..
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series-romance
romance-love
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I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn't know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Do not forget to entertain strangers," Buck said in the same language, "for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
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All right," I said, waving the cup away and dabbing moisture very carefully from my lips. "I'm fine." I breathed shallowly, feeling my heart begin to slow down. "Well. So. At least now I know why you've been coming back from the Cherokee villages in such a state of-- of--" I felt an unhinged giggle rising, and bent over, moaning as I stifled it. "Oh, Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ. And here I thought it was thoughts of me, driving you mad with ..
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love
gabaldon
clairefraser
jamiefraser
outlander
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It's strange," he said, "when he was alive, I didna pay him much heed. But once he was dead, the things he'd told me had a good deal more influence."
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The weather was still cold, but I was not. The blood thrummed near the surface of my skin, and I felt heat rise in my palms. I reached a hand out to the pine that stood by me, drops of water trembling on each needle, its bark black with wet. I breathed its scent and let the water touch my skin, cool as vapor. The rain fell in shushing stillness all around me, dampening my clothes 'til they clung to me softly, like clouds upon the mountain. ..
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But the years between now and then had been hard ones--and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance.
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Sleep, O sleep in the calm of all calm, Sleep, O sleep in the guidance of guidance, Sleep, O sleep in the love of all loves, Sleep, O beloved, in the Lord of life, Sleep, O beloved, in the God of life! It
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Not everyone who goes through the stones comes out again." His look sharpened. "How d'ye ken that, Sassenach?" "I can--I could--hear them. Screaming." I"
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Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.
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illness
death
usefulness
useless
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It was very quiet here on the mountainside, but, quiet in the of hills and forests. A quiet that wasn't silent at all, but composed of constant tiny sounds. It was small buzzing in the gorse bush nearby, of bees working the yellow flowers -dusty with pollen, far below was the rushing of the burn, a low note echoing the wind above stirring leaves and rattling twigs sighing past the jutting boulders.
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I don't know how long it went on," he continued. "Not that long, likely, but it seemed like a long time to me. At last he stopped a moment and shouted at me. He was beside himself wi' fury, and I was so furious myself I could barely make out what he said at first but then I could. He roared 'Damn you, Jamie! Can ye no cry out? You're grown now, and I dinna mean to beat you ever again, but I want one good yelp out of ye, lad, before I quit, ..
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I had realized many years before why "patients" are called that; it's because a sick person is generally incapacitated, and thus obliged to put up with any amount of harassment and annoyance from persons who are not sick."
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Er ... what is the current rate of taxation, do you think?" I asked, tactfully drawing attention away from Stanhope's spluttering. Wylie pursed his lips, considering. A dandy, he wore the latest in modish wigs, and a small patch in the shape of a star beside his mouth. Under the powder, though, I thought I detected both a good-looking face and a very shrewd brain. "Oh, considering all incidentals, I should say it can amount to as much as tw..
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Next time I marry someone, I'll pick a lass who wakes up cheerful in the morning,
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Often the best tool is the most dangerous. One doesn't hesitate to use it on that account; one merely makes sure to take adequate precautions.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Money is a good bridle, but a weak rein.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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It doesna matter how many things ye do on a farm, there's always more than ye can do. A wonder the place doesna rise up about my ears and swallow me, like Jonah and the whale.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which He has placed me.
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Diana Gabaldon |