She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.

Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk." You aren't standing up." he point out. You are.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

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

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.