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If thee thinks the spirit of God is necessarily logical, thee know Him better than I do.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Roger was on the whole rather glad that her father was not present, since he would certainly have taken paternal umbrage at the sorts of thoughts Roger was thinking; thoughts
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Diana Gabaldon |
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It's two hundred year, in the Highland tales--when folk fall asleep on fairy duns and end up dancing all night wi' the Auld Folk; it's usually two hundred year later when they come back to their own place.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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We come and go from mystery and, in between, we try to forget. But a breeze passing in a still room stirs my hair now and then in soft affection. I think it is my mother.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Bonjour, Monsieur Fraser. She inclined her veil gracefully, more to hide the broad smile on her face than in greeting, I thought. I see you have made the acquaintance of Bouton. Are you perhaps in search of your wife? This seeming to be my cue, I sidled out of the office door behind her. My devoted spouse glanced from Bouton to the office door, plainly drawing conclusions. And just how long have ye been standin' there,Sassenach? he aske..
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claire-fraser
jamie-fraser
dog
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Daddy, Daddy ..." "I'm here," he whispered into Jem's hair, the tears running down his own face. "I'm here, I'm here. Don't be afraid." Jem took a shuddering breath,"
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Diana Gabaldon |
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You are alive. You are whole. All is well.
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simple-truths
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Diana Gabaldon |
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bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails,
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Diana Gabaldon |
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There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her." "And I," said a tall figure behind him, softly. Ian. Arch"
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Diana Gabaldon |
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a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Sassenach... I love ye now, and I will love ye always. Whether I am dead - or you - whether we are together or apart. You know it is true, he said quietly, and touched my face. "I know it of you, and ye know it of me as well."
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love
fierycross
jamiefraser
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Diana Gabaldon |
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People often say that women forget what childbirth is like, because if they remembered, no one would ever do it more than once. Personally, I had no trouble at all remembering. The sense of massive inertia, particularly. That endless time toward the end, when it seems that it never will end, that one is mired in some prehistoric tar pit, every small move a struggle doomed to futility. Every square centimeter of skin stretched as thin as one..
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Hal swore in German behind him. He must have reached the part about the rifles; German oaths were reserved for the most stringent occasions, French being used for minor things like a burnt dinner, and Latin for formal insults committed to paper. Minnie wouldn't let either Hal or John swear in English in the house, not wanting the boys to acquire low habits. John could have told her it was too late for such caution but didn't.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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It is for this reason that a scientist constructs hypotheses--suggestions for the cause of an observation. But a hypothesis must never be confused with an explanation--with proof.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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She came naked behind him as the soft melancholy yearning of the song filled the dark. Her hand stroked his hair, gathered it tight at the nape of his neck. She swayed, and he felt her press against his back, her breasts soft now, yielding and warm through his shirt, her breath tickling his ear. Her hand rested on his shoulder briefly, then slid down inside his shirt, fingers cool on his chest. He could feel the warm hard metal of her ring ..
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Twilight was coming on, and so was a storm. In the eerie light beneath the clouds, even the thoroughly modern houses along the road looked as ancient and as sinister as the weathered Pictish stone that stood a hundred feet away, guarding the crossroads it had marked for a thousand years. It seemed a good night to be inside with the shutters fastened.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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My dear daughter, As you will see if ever you receive this, we are alive. . . .
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Diana Gabaldon |
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I prayed for guidance, kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament," he went on, "and as I sat in the silence of the chapel, I seemed to see you as a shipwrecked traveler. And it seems to me that that is a good parallel to your present situation, is it not? Imagine such a soul, Madame, suddenly cast away in a strange land, bereft of friends and familiarity, without resources save what the new land can provide. Such a happening is disaster, truly,..
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Diana Gabaldon |
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And the light was gone, and the air failed them. And so they lay down in the dark to die.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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You do know that women aren't rational, don't you?" "I do. Neither are men." "Well, you have a point,"
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Diana Gabaldon |
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A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely benign--or at least you hope so--but you are laying violent hands on someone, and you must be ruthless in order to do it effectively. And sometimes the person under your hands will die, and knowing that ... you do it anyway. I
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I may quibble wi' what the Lord's called me to do now and then, Sassenach - but I've nay argument wi' how he made me." "Besides, if it had been different, I wouldna have you, would I? Or have Brianna or her weans?... It's been worth it, Sassenach. For me." I cleared my throat. "For me, too."
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What if I cannot keep ye safe?... You and the rest of them? I shall try wi all my strength, Sassenach, and I dinna mind if I die doing it but what i should die too soon - and fail? "You won't." "'ll try not." "If I die dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait."
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I married a lady and she became a whore. I cannot complain if it should be the other way about this time." "You think I'm a whore, do you?" She wasn't sure whether to be amused or insulted. Perhaps both. "Do you normally sleep with your victims, madam?" "I wasn't asleep, Your Grace, and if you had been, I think I would have noticed. (A Fugitive Green)" --
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Roger Wakefield: esta es mi hija, Brianna. Brianna Randall dio un paso adelante con una sonrisa timida.
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whom
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The ninth Earl of Ellesmere had his chin thrust out as far as it would go, but the defiant look in his eye was tempered with a certain doubt as he intercepted Jamie's cold blue gaze. Jamie set the horse's hoof down slowly, just as slowly stood up, and drawing himself to his full height of six feet four, put his hands on his hips, looked down at the Earl, three feet six, and said, very softly, "No."
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standoff
jamie-fraser
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Does it ever stop? The wanting you?
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Diana Gabaldon |
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I've thought that perhaps that's why women are so often sad, once the child's born," she said meditatively, as though thinking aloud. "Ye think of them while ye talk, and you have a knowledge of them as they are inside ye, the way you think they are. And then they're born, and they're different--not the way ye thought of them inside, at all. And ye love them, o' course, and get to know them the way they are ... but still, there's the though..
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I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday; not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away. I said, "Lord, if I've ever had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough and not fall to my knees and beg her to stay."
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respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior,
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Diana Gabaldon |
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I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconsciousness knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times, it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple slee..
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trust
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outlander
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Eger Zaman biraz olsun Tanri'ya benzeyen bir seyse, o halde Hafiza'nin Seytan olmasi gerektigini dusunuyorum.
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sangfroid
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JAMES ALEXANDER MALCOLM MACKENZIE FRASER,' " she read aloud. "Yes, I know him." Her hand dropped lower, brushing back the grass that grew thickly about the stone, obscuring the line of smaller letters at its base."
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In that case, maybe we shouldn't be disturbing you," said a soft American voice. "Oh, I forgot," said Claire, half-turning to the girl who had stood out of sight in the corner of the porch. "Roger Wakefield--my daughter, Brianna."
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Hell was full of clocks, he was sure of it. There was no torment, after all, that could not be exacerbated by a contemplation of time passing. The large case clock at the end of the corridor had a particularly penetrating tick-tock, audiable above and through all the noises of the house. It seemed to Lord John Grey to echo his own heartbeats, each one a step on the road towards death.
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time
death
lord-john
heartbeat
hell
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Jamie was real, alright, more real than anything had ever been to me, even Frank and my life in 1945. Jamie, tender lover and perfidious blackguard.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well!
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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
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Diana Gabaldon |
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He said, 'If you're sizable, half the men ye meet will fear ye, and the other half will want to try ye. Knock one down,' he said, 'and the rest will let ye be. But learn to do it fast and clean, or you'll be fightin' all your life.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Go down," she said, "and tell them the MacKenzies are here." --
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