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fd8f17c
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There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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c2efb77
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I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday," he said softly. "Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away." He shook his head, still gazing up the hill, a faraway look in his eyes. "I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay. He pulled his eyes away from the cottage and smiled bri..
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Diana Gabaldon |
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eca476b
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I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.
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romantic
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Diana Gabaldon |
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e269fb9
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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. At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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1b480b8
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I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs." --
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jamie-fraser
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Diana Gabaldon |
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4f6c7fe
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Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime"
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Diana Gabaldon |
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f07daad
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Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind, when you walk alone. All the time the ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future. 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. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves. Each ghost comes unbidden from the..
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outlander
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Diana Gabaldon |
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066c310
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The dog would run a few steps toward the house, circle once or twice as though unable to decide what to do next, then run back into the wood, turn, and run again toward the house, all the while whining with agitation, tail low and wavering. "Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ," I said. "Bloody Timmy's in the well!"
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Diana Gabaldon |
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457fb1b
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I love I have loved ye from the moment I saw ye, I will love ye 'til time itself is done, and so long as you are by my side, I am well pleased wi' the world.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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07bd70e
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For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard of some great man. All orphans do this, I think," he added dispassionately."It makes life easier to bear, to pretend that it will not always be as it is, that someone will come and restore you to your rightful place in the world." He shrugged. "Then I grew older, and knew that this was not true. No one would come to rescue me. But then-" he t..
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jamie-fraser
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Diana Gabaldon |
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c61ee86
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But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And, Sassenach," he whispered, "your face is my heart."
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romance
relationship
sweet
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Diana Gabaldon |
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0f93d7a
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well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
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fiery-cross
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Diana Gabaldon |
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623f12d
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You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection."
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Diana Gabaldon |
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a95169b
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I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.
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women
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Diana Gabaldon |
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36fbaef
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Has he come armed, then?" she asked anxiously. "Has he brought a pistol or a sword?" Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. "Oh, no, Mam!" he said. "It's worse. He's brought a lawyer!"
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lawyers
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Diana Gabaldon |
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603b5fa
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Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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f5c4cfc
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His hand rested on my hair, and without knowing quite how it happened, I found myself curled against him, my head just fitting in the hollow of his shoulder.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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169935f
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I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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9b7d255
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No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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7e28aa9
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Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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c953565
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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 a woman with the consequences of my own actions.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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694d2a6
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Lord that she might be safe. She and my children.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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5147a68
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I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained."
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Diana Gabaldon |
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I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire ag..
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fiery-cross
outlander
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Diana Gabaldon |
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626e55c
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Sassenach," he said against my shoulder, a moment later. "Mm?" "Who in God's name is John Wayne?" "You are," I said. "Go to sleep."
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Diana Gabaldon |
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926a6f0
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There was another reason. The main one." "Reason?" I said stupidly. "Why I married you." "Which was?" I don't know what I expected him to say, perhaps some further revelation of his family's contorted affairs. What he did say was more of a shock, in its way. "Because I wanted you." He turned from the window to face me. "More than I ever wanted anything in my life," he added softly."
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Diana Gabaldon |
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d320edc
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My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser
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spanking
parenting
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Diana Gabaldon |
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222f2e2
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But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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And you, my Sassenach? What were you born for? To be lady of a manor, or to sleep in the fields like a gypsy? To be a healer, or a don's wife, or an outlaw's lady?" "I was born for you," I said simply, and held out my arms to him."
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jamie-fraser
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a particular delight. Intoxicated, she took less care for him than usual; abandoned and oblivious to all but her own pleasure, she would rake him, bite him - and beg him to serve her so, as well. He loved the feeling of power in it, the tantalizing choice between joining her at once in animal lust, or of holding himself-..
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Diana Gabaldon |
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He felt me wake, and drew me close, as though to preserve a moment longer the union we had reached in those last seconds of our perilous joining. I curled beside him, putting my arms around him. He opened his eyes then and sighed, the long mouth curling in a faint smile as his glance met mine. I raised my brows in silent question. "Oh, aye, Sassenach," he answered a bit ruefully. "I am your master ... and you're mine. Seems I canna possess ..
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Diana Gabaldon |
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cdb53bd
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This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours."
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Diana Gabaldon |
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93ae59c
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Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?
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Diana Gabaldon |
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I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}"
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Diana Gabaldon |
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398924e
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As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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544889f
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I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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Why?" I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against his chest. "Why, why why!". Because I was afraid!" He got hold of my wrists and threw me backward so I fell across the bed. He stood over me, fists clenched, breathing hard. I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!" ~~~~~~~~~ You should have told me!"
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romance
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Diana Gabaldon |
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e5e99ac
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Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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8457c41
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That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl."
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Diana Gabaldon |
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a0db3e1
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If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.
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Diana Gabaldon |
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I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then...
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Diana Gabaldon |