When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.

Then let amourous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred and a Thousand more

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.