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.
Diana GabaldonRoger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours.
Diana GabaldonI will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.
Diana GabaldonTorn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
Diana Gabaldon