I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile. True, I said, gritting my teeth as I wrapped a water-soaked napkin about my hand. Men tend to be very colorful when you're picking shrapnel out of them.
Diana GabaldonI thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.
Diana GabaldonFor so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.
Diana Gabaldon...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
Diana Gabaldon