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  1. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    You want me to attend your hanging?"His tone must have contained some of the incredulity he felt, for the captain gave him an impatient look."I'd have sent an engraved invitation, had I time," he said.
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  2. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    I knew from the first glimpse that he was dead. But I ran to him". There was no way in which to describe his feelings, because he hadn't had any. The world had simply ceased in that moment, and with it, all his knowledge of how things were done. He simply could not see how life might continue. The first lesson of adult life was it, horribly, did.
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  3. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    Would it be better if I'd had daughters?" she asked the mirror, in apparent earnestness."No," she answered herself. "They'd only marry men, and there you are.
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  4. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    Wait, let me get that down. Primum: save…men. Secundo: do not…drop…weapon. Tertio-what's the third thing on this list?" "Suck my prick," Grey said rudely. "Ass." Percy promptly flipped the sketchbook shut and came toward him, eyes brighter still. "Wait! I didn't mean it!" "Just following orders," Percy murmured, pinning him to the bed with a deft knee on his thigh, and getting a hand on his flies. "Sir.
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  5. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    A party at which the guests are all of the beautiful persuasion tends to be dull indeed, as they have no conversation that does not pertain to themselves. A successful gathering requires a number of the ill-favored but clever. The beautiful are but ornaments-desirable, but dispensable.
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  6. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    Grey had noticed this female paradox before: women who swooned at the notion of powerful men who would protect them at the same time liked nothing better than an open admission of helplessness on the part of any male within their sphere of influence.
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  7. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    He paused by the window, looking up into a lavender sky, fingers pressed against the icy glass. No stars tonight; the snowflakes came down out of the dark, rushing towards him, endless, uncountable. Silent, too, but not like the stars. Falling snow whispered secrets to itself."And you are a fanciful idiot," he said outloud.
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  8. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    Still, that would not solve the problem; Percy would merely languish in prison until such time as Grey was recovered enough to testify. No, he decided, Hal's response would more likely be to knock Grey over the head, bundle him into a sack, and have him smuggled aboard a merchantman bound for China, after which he would declare Grey lost at sea, and… He discovered that he was laughing helplessly at the thought, tears coming to his eyes. "Christ, Hal, I wish you would," he said aloud, and quite suddenly thought of Aberdeen, realizing for the first time just how desperately his brother loved him.
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  9. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    Of course you would protect the woman," he said. "You protect everyone, John-I don't suppose you can help it."Astonished, Grey opened his mouth to contest this absurd statement, but was forestalled when Percy leaned forward and kissed him softly."You are the bravest man I know," Percy said, his breath warm on Grey's cheek. "And you will not convince me otherwise."
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  10. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    He stood for a moment, bereavement a sudden, small tear in his soul."
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  11. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    Men are made in God's image, or so I am told. Likewise that we differ from the animals in having reason. Reason, therefore, must plainly be a characteristic of the Almighty, quod erat demonstrandum. Is it reasonable, then, to create men whose very nature- clearly constructed and defined by yourself- is inimical to your own laws and must lead inevitably to destruction? Whatever would be the point of that? Does it not strike you as a most capricious notion- to say nothing of being wasteful?
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  12. Diana Gabaldon _ Lord John and the Brotherhood

    He who throws dirt is losing ground,
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