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“Here was a man who wore his scars on the outside and held a merry heart within. How much better that was than its opposite.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“I loved him right away," she said. "Almost on sight. Some things are so obvious when you look at them. And when that happens there isn't any choice.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“The dwarf and the woman, lucky miscreants, outlanders, errors that should not exist but lived on anyway. (314)”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“Sometimes Discontent is unknown to the sufferer, a shadowed thing that creeps up from behind. It had been that way for Mary. Of course she knew there were reasons for her unhappiness, there are always reasons. One thinks, I am unhappy, I am discontent, because of this or that. But such thoughts are like a painting of sorrow, not sorrow itself. Then one day it comes, hushed and ferocious, and reasons don’t matter anymore.” - The Outlander by Gil Adamson”
― Gil Adamson

“An hour later, he was sitting upon his knapsack allowing himself the luxury of a modest fire. Tarp unfurled and ready for him to roll up in it, cover his head, and sleep. His legs were spread wide, and he held a long green branch to stir the edges of the fire, watching a ballet of small flames atop the logs, each pop of light roused by something inside the wood, now wavering, now seeming to slide to another spot, where it roused again. At first the sight was lovely to him. But then some instinct began to nag, an intimation that he was missing something. This was a tale told in light and blackened char, in twirling ribbons of smoke and steam, wordless and indifferent to human understanding, but a story nonetheless. A tree’s last breath as it burned, the exhalation of”
― Gil Adamson, Ridgerunner

“But like all wonders, natural or otherwise, it made your own life seem temporary, and it told you things about the passage of time you didn’t want to know.”
― Gil Adamson, Ridgerunner

“For who has not wondered whether everything in this world might be alive? Though it be made of stone or wood or metal, there might be life in it, or opinion or, worst of all, resentment. The hewn boards of any boardwalk, did they recall the bite of the saw? Does memory linger in them? Perhaps the forge’s fire still dreams in each nail. A building might be made entirely of injured and brooding things.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“believed that education was damaging—too much blood to a woman’s brain would cause reproductive malfunction. To prove her”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“SOMETIMES DISCONTENT is unknown to the sufferer, a shadowed thing that creeps up from behind. It had been that way for Mary. Of course, she knew there were reasons for her unhappiness, there are always reasons. One thinks, I am unhappy, I am discontent, because of this or that. But such thoughts are like a painting of sorrow, not sorrow itself. Then one day it comes, hushed and ferocious, and reasons don’t matter any more.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“face and come to wait at the place where”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“But everything is remembered by its moment of greatest intensity. Dying”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“As a little girl, she had lain awake at night, staring hard into her lightless bedroom, imagining that the darkened room congealed and shifted - a shadow play, black on black - and she had waited for what chimera might show itself. A strange child, she had been unafraid of these things, monstrous figures reaching for one another, sickly shapes boiling up like dumplings in dark broth. Her only fear was that they pantomimed her flaws and sins. Some nights she said her own name over and over again, as protection, as explanation.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“But everything is remembered by its moment of greatest intensity. Dying was hers.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“Find me.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“believed that education was damaging—too much blood to a woman’s brain would cause reproductive malfunction. To”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“Jacob Neuhanssen, lately a farmer out of Durham Falls, was discovered by a local physician, J. M. Keeler, to be in the process of hanging himself from a tree in front of his house. Keeler rushed to cut the suicide down, but in dropping to the ground Neuhanssen broke his leg. As the farmer was now unable to move, the physician ran to get his wagon to take the unfortunate fellow to his surgery. But in his haste, Keeler backed the wagon over Neuhanssen, killing him. No charges are to be laid against the physician.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“The widow’s own grandmother had believed that education was damaging — too much blood to a woman’s brain would cause reproductive malfunction.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“How cruel that she had really seen him, touched him. That he had been real, not another phantasm drifting greyly among the trees, a little gasp of loneliness from her afflicted mind. But a beautiful face, and a voice not merely familiar but in her bones. The Ridgerunner was gone, and she could still smell him on her hands.”
― Gil Adamson, The Outlander

“His breath was the only sound, and in that darkness it seemed too loud. Was he the only one breathing? He stood and listened hard. For days he had felt as if something was pacing along just behind him, some shy creature following his scent.”
― Gil Adamson, Ridgerunner