An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time
("Drums of Autumn")
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That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie FraserDiana Gabaldon
It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.
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There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give me. But what I would ask of ye---when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll promise ye the same. We have nothing now between us, save---respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. Do ye agree?
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Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.
Diana Gabaldon
He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.
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It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach
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