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1443 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 6, 2001
”Let the dead bury the dead, Sassenach,” he said softly. “The past is gone - the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I."
“D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.”
“You are beautiful,” he whispered to me.
“If you say so.”
“Do ye not believe me? Have I ever lied to you?”
“That’s not what I mean. I mean—if you say it, then it’s true.
You make it true.”
”There may be a day when you and I shall part again,” he said softly, at last, and his fingers brushed my lips, light as the touch of a falling leaf. He smiled faintly. “But it willna be today."