How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.
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.
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Diana Gabaldon
To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.
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Diana Gabaldon
I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come.. ." He stopped, looking at me with eyes gone soft and dark. "Christ, Claire, ye were so beautiful, there on the stair, wi' your hair down and the shadow...
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Diana Gabaldon
I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him,...
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Christina Dodd
Midnight Omen Deja vu" - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean...at least once in a lifetime.
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Marti Melville
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Things don't matter, people do
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human...
The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in...
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
