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  1. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    A friend once told me, 'The body has nay conscience.' I dinna ken that that's entirely so-but it is true that the body doesna generally admit the possibility of nonexistence. And if ye exist-well, ye need food, that's all.
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  2. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    The lawyer had gone a mottled red and gray, like a bad oyster, but said nothing. Jamie
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  3. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    Created by Your hand as You created man, Life given for life. That me and mine may eat with thanks for the gift, That me and mine may give thanks for Your own sacrifice of blood and flesh, Life given for life." The
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  4. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    You don't forget. You simply get to the point where you don't care what birth will feel like; anything is better than being pregnant for an instant longer. I'd reached that point roughly two weeks before my due date. The date
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  5. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    When ye set about a difficult quest-if ye're Kahnyen'kehaka, I mean-ye generally go aside for a time, to fast and pray for guidance. We havena time to be doing that now, of course. But often, while ye're doing that, ye choose a talisman-or to be right about it, it chooses you-" He sounded completely matter-of-fact about this procedure, Roger noted. "And ye carry it with ye through the quest, to keep the attention of the spirits upon your desire and ensure your success."
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  6. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    THE VENOM OF THE NORTH WIND July 1774 Brianna drove the sharp end of the spade into the muddy bank and pulled out a
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  7. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    For your sake, I will continue-though for mine alone … I would not.
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  8. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    As the world turns toward winter and the nights grow long, people begin to wake in the dark. Lying in bed too long cramps the limbs, and dreams dreamt too long turn inward on themselves, grotesque as a Mandarin's fingernails.
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  9. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    I was older, heavier, and completely berserk.
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  10. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    There is never an end to such things," he said quietly. "But we are alive. And that is good.
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  11. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    astutely observes that a Man's sense of"
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  12. Diana Gabaldon _ A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    within the circle of the fire, where part
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