Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
Diana Gabaldon
I have two brain cells left, and one of them is busy reminding me to buy toilet paper.
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Nobody had ever told me how to do these things,.. I didn't want anyone giving me advice until I had it all figured out on my own.
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Look, pick it up, open it anywhere and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar.
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[Claire travels in time. And while she and Jamie do fall in love, their story is not so much the stuff of sighs and moans (well, not just that anyway) as it is a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across 10 generations. These are genre-bending novels, and that's just one of many reasons that people read them.] Historical romance is not what I write,.. I've always called them historical fantasias.
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All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that
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Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down
Some people are just mad about the historical aspects; they feel as though they're living in a different time or they're learning something
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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.
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Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
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Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits.
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You know historians - can't leave a puzzle alone
history
Time makes very little difference to the basic realities of life
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 under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.
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I heard you went to Ireland..I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.
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