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So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
Diana Gabaldon
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Diana Gabaldon
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 11
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Arizona
Diana J. Gabaldon Perez
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Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
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D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.
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We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.
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Harmless as a setting dove, he agreed. I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.
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It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach
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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.
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Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
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