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“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!”
― Cold Mountain
― Cold Mountain
“I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart”
― Dragonfly in Amber
― Dragonfly in Amber
“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.”
― Outlander
― Outlander
“I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."
His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.
Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.
Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
“We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights. ”
― Kushiel's Avatar
― Kushiel's Avatar
Nostalgia
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Group of Independent Booksellers and related industry professionals sharing reviews of Romance and Romance-adjacent books.
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