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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f303abd | What is it, love?" I whispered. "Jamie, I do love you." "I know it," he said quietly. "I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go back to sleep, mo duinne." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 58b295a | When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right women, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that fruit tree on the road to Leoch with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself, "Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weighs as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 37462de | Grey shook his head and, wheezing gently, one hand to his bruised ribs, got awkwardly to his feet and hobbled to the wing chair. "You could ... have helped," he said to Fraser. "Ye managed brawly on your own," Fraser assured him gravely, and to his mortification, Grey found that this word of praise gratified him exceedingly." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7e6bfe7 | In this instance, the point of showing you the king's funeral was primarily that it provided Lord John with his moment of enlightenment regarding Jamie's motive for remaining at Helwater. Secondarily, it shows a historical turning point that a) anchors the reader in time, b) metaphorically underlines the conclusion of the Grey brothers' quest, c) marks a turning point in Lord John's relationship with Jamie Fraser, and d) opens the door to a.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1ba4ada | I meant with my cook at Mount Josiah, in Virginia. His name is Manoke. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ad8eb62 | It is not merely the relief of necessary urges," he added pointedly, turning his head to meet my eyes. "There is true liking between us." "I'm pleased to hear that," I murmured. "He, er, he's ..." "I have no idea whether his preference is solely for men. I rather doubt it--I was somewhat surprised when he made his desires known in re myself--but I am in no position to complain, whatever his tastes may be." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ac46fbd | They had had no opportunity to speak, though--and he could not seem to invent a pretext, let alone think what he might say if he found one. He felt amazingly self-conscious, like a boy unable to say anything to an attractive girl. He'd be blushing, next thing, he thought, disgusted with himself. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f6d5b54 | Three days before his scheduled departure, he rose in the morning with the conviction that he must speak with Fraser, somehow. Not in the stiff manner of an interview between paroled prisoner and officer of the Crown--simply a few words, as man to man. If he could have that, he could go back to London with an easy heart, knowing that sometime, somewhere, there was the possibility that they might be friends again, even if that time and place.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 899d98d | He could not help himself; whether it brought him comfort or misery, he felt he had no choice now but to speak of Fraser--and Quarry was the only man in London to whom he could so speak. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0fec9fc | Fatigue and distress tended merely to sharpen Grey's fine-cut features, | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f961e3f | I, um, had had it in mind to take Azeel and Rodrigo with me to South Carolina. But they may be helpful to the present venture, if...er...if Rodrigo is sufficiently recovered." "Has he been ill?" Worry creased the general's already-furrowed brow. "I hear the yellow jack comes to the West Indies at this season, but I hadn't thought Jamaica was badly affected." "No, not ill, exactly. He had the misfortune to run afoul of a houngan--a sort of, .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1a7f5d5 | GENERAL STANLEY WAS still blinking in astonishment at Grey's brief description of the events that had culminated in his own appointment as military governor--Grey judiciously suppressing the facts that Azeel had commissioned an Obeah man to drive the previous governor mad and that Rodrigo had gone one step further and arranged to have the late Governor Warren killed and partially devoured-- | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1e11262 | But Grey had refused to abandon Rodrigo, and so had Azeel. She had brought him slowly, slowly back to humanity--and then had married him, to the extreme horror of everyone in King's Town. "He's got back most of his speech," Grey explained to the general. "But only Spanish, that being his first language. He only remembers a few scattered words of English. We"--he smiled at Azeel, who ducked her head shyly--"hope that will improve, too, given.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 81dc41c | I'm not the person who looks back or looks forward. I try to live in what is now. | Agnetha Fältskog | ||
| 946b9d4 | I would like you to go with me to Cuba," Grey said, looking from one to the other. "Rodrigo could go where I could not go, and hear and see things I couldn't. But...there might be some small danger, and if you choose not to go, I will give you enough money for passage to the colonies. If you do choose to come with me, I will take you from Cuba to America, and you will either remain in my employment or, if you prefer, I will find you a place.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4987d4a | Fair enough," I whispered, and drained the cup, the shreds of tea leaf strong and bitter on my tongue." -- | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7d532da | blindness, and I was | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 820b1b7 | I lifted the pistol a little, | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| eaf703e | It was going to be a bloody business, on both sides. He didn't like the thought but didn't shy away from it. It was war, and he was--once again--a soldier. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8c98de3 | It will be all right," he said, taking her hand. "We will succeed--and we will rescue Senor Stubbs. I promise you." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7626420 | Muchas gracias, my dear," he told her, and bowed low over her hand. "Azeel, please tell her that we could not even contemplate this venture without her courage and help. The entire British Navy is in her debt." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f8a5175 | John felt the night as something wild creeping upon him, the force of spring itself rising from the ground into his feet, his legs, bursting through his body 'til the blood throbbed in his fingers, pulsed in his chest. Perhaps it was freedom, the exhilaration of their escape. Perhaps the excitement of a hunt by night, adventure and danger before them. Or the knowledge that he was an outlaw--with pursuit and danger certainly behind him. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4fa7cdc | He could hear Jamie's breath, or thought he could--it seemed part of the soft wind that touched his face. He could smell Jamie, smell the musk of his body, the dried sweat and dust in his clothes, and felt suddenly wolflike and feral, longing changed to outright hunger. He wanted. Master me, he thought, breathing deep, or shall I your master be? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 71f99b6 | You asked me if I thought it was worth it. I don't know. But it is my duty, regardless. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0d4d1c6 | And damn you, too, Claire Randall Fraser, while I'm at it!" he said. "Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spend in another man's bed! Damn you!" He knocked the brandy class from my hand - accidentally, I think - pulled me to him and kissed me hard. He drew back enough to shake me again. "You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wiln.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| fa99f5d | Well, I'll tell ye, Sassenach, "graceful" is possibly not the first word that springs to mind at the thought of you. But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul. And, Sassenach, your face is my heart." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d35ff58 | Jamie stood quite still, feeling his heart beat, watching. It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| aa9b7d6 | I sniffed, wiped my nose, and took his arm as we | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 89e0c7e | I'd lived long enough to realize that fear wasn't usually fatal--at least not by itself. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d796200 | suppose--maybe medicines? They're covered, | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 6ec33a0 | There's intelligence," Quarry said slowly. "And then there are other things. But perhaps you're too young to have seen hate and despair at close range. There's been a deal of it in Scotland, these last ten years." He tilted his head, surveying the new commander of Ardsmuir from his vantage point of fifteen years' seniority. Major Grey was young, no more than twenty-six, and with a fair-complexioned face and girlish lashes that made him look.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 582aef2 | ENTER A SERPENT | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 77cbf12 | Grey stood up as they came in, Azeel hovering protectively behind Rodrigo. The young man stopped, taking a deep breath before bowing deeply to the gentlemen. "Your...servant. Sah," he said to Grey, and then straightened, turned upon his axis, and repeated this process to the general, who watched him with a mixture of fascination and wariness. Every time he saw Rodrigo, Grey's heart was torn between regret for what the young man had once bee.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d75644f | June 16, 1778 The forest between Philadelphia and Valley Forge | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1219294 | Highland Clans office, | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 51bbf63 | Mac had found him. A big hand had suddenly reached down and grabbed him, and the next minute he was lifted up, bruised and scraped and bleeding but clutched tight against the Scottish groom's rough shirt, strong arms holding him as though they'd never let him go. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| cc8c82a | After all, who's going to look after all the sick folk, if your grannie's lying about in pieces?" F" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 066f538 | I kept havin' terrible lewd dreams about ye, all the night long," he explained, twitching his breeks into better adjustment. "Every time I rolled over, I'd lie on my cock and wake up. It was awful." I burst out laughing, and he affected to look injured, though I could see reluctant amusement behind it. "Well, you can laugh, Sassenach," he said. "Ye havena got one to trouble ye." "Yes, and a great relief it is, too," I assured him." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 54ef85d | But it was something to do with the paintings ... | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 93b6149 | Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune--so long as you didn't actually die of it. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| bf37f52 | I told them I'd had a nightmare - well, I had, in a way - but it caused the hell of a stramash, what wi' the bairns shriekin', and Ian choking in the corner, and Mrs. Murray sittin' bolt upright in bed, sayin' "Who, who?" like a wee fat owl.' I" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 44cc75d | Thank ye, John," he said. "I hadna time to say it earlier. I'm verra grateful to ye." "Thank me? It was hardly my choice. You abducted me at gunpoint." Jamie smiled; the tension of the last hour had eased, and with it the lines of his face. "Not that. For taking care of Claire, I mean." "Claire," he repeated. "Ah. Yes. That." "Aye, that," Jamie said patiently, and bent a little to peer at him in concern. "Are ye quite well, John? Ye look a .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1313409 | Grey seized him by the shoulders, seeking to ease him back. "Henry, my dear. Do forgive me. I didn't mean--" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ca713fd | INCIPIENT THUNDER | Diana Gabaldon |