All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.
("A Breath of Snow and Ashes")
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What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.Diana 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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I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.
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Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.
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He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.
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All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
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