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“I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

tags: diana-gabaldon, dragonfly-in-amber

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“Saint George's legend tells of the dangers of mythical creatures and the value of man asserting dominance over them. Manu's tale, quite conversely, stresses the value of mercy, coexistence, and peaceful symbiosis. [...] Marlowe is a good man, but he only knows how to slay dragons. The world is full of dragon-slayers. What we need are a few more people who aren't too proud to listen to a fish.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

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“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

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“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough..”
― Diana Gabaldon

tags: claire-fraser, love, outlander

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“I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconsciousness knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times, it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than the joining of bodies.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: intimacy, outlander, trust, truth

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Nostalgia — 3 members — last activity May 13, 2009 12:16PM
Melinda and Jessica go back to the books that were really cool in Public School, to look at them with the eyes of a college education...Island of the ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 222832 members — last activity Jul 22, 2026 11:54PM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

Sirens Conference — 297 members — last activity Oct 16, 2020 10:58AM
Sirens Conference Website: http://www.sirensconference.org/ Once a year, Narrate Conferences presents Sirens, a conference on women in fantasy litera ...more

Country Bookshelf Reading Challenge — 2 members — last activity Mar 02, 2018 05:47PM
Are you participating in the Country Bookshelf Reading Challenge? Join us to chat about what we're reading, what challenge we're working on, and find ...more

The Romance of Bookselling — 19 members — last activity Mar 29, 2020 05:35PM
A Group of Independent Booksellers and related industry professionals sharing reviews of Romance and Romance-adjacent books.

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