When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark on the way to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest,...
Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been staring, I blushed and said without thinking, I was just wondering if you've ever been kissed by a beautiful young girl? I went still redder...
If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband to finish risking his stupid neck, I'd use the time to see what I could spot.
And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a damn flower garden. What d'ye think I am, a man or a bumblebee? Would ye wash yourself, Sassenach, so I...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to...
The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum...
In fact, none of us knows how he ever managed to get his LLB in the first place. Maybe they're...
Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No...
Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me,...
But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.