Harmless as a setting dove,” he agreed. “I’m too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I’ll no answer for the consequences.
All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
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!
Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach,” he said, his speech measured and precise, “I will take later, every time.
Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.
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.
His Grace woke up in the morning red-eyed as a ferret and in roughly the same temper as a rabid badger. Had I a tranquilizing dart, I would have shot him with it without an instant’s hesitation.
Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would ha’ been a good deal easier if you’d only been a witch.
And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire – I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. – Jamie.
I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I had noticed that before 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 unconscious knowing.
What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi’ a fish whilst I was fighting for my life?
There are things ye maybe canna tell me, he had said. I willna ask ye, or force ye. But when ye do tell me something, let it be the truth. There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think – but not for lies.
A general cry of “What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
For the moment, everything had disappeared: the church, the battle, the screams and shouts and the rumble of limber wheels along the rutted road through Freehold. There wasn’t anything but her and him, and he opened his eyes to look on her face, to fix it in his mind forever.
We’ve ghosts enough between us, Sassenach. If the evils of the past canna hinder us-neither then shall any fears of the future. We must just must put things behind us and get on. Aye?
Jamie felt a strong desire to go across and see what the open books were, to go to the shelves and run his knuckles gently over the leather and wood and buckrum of the bindings until a book should speak to him and come willingly into his hand.
No hay respuestas, sino elecciones.
Hodie mihi cras tibi. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
Fat-heided creatures, the Carmichaels,” she said judiciously. “Loyal enough, but stubborn as rocks.” “Thus sayeth a Fraser,” I remarked. “The Carmichaels must be something special in that line.