If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

The overseer wouldna speak to me of Ian, but he told me other things that would curl your hair, if it wasna already curled up like sheep's wool." He glanced at me, and a half-smile lit his face, inspite of his obvious perturbation. "Judging by the state of your hair, Sassenach, I should say that it's going to rain verra soon now.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.