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Date Posted: Fri, June 17 2022, 20:18:29
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Saturday, June 18, 2022

The following quote is from Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 147, “A Lot of Blood.” Copyright © 2021 by Diana Gabaldon, all rights reserved.

“‘I’m…no…afraid,’ he whispered. ‘I’m not.’ A bout of coughing seized him. It was nearly silent, but the violence of it shook his whole body. He wasn’t coughing up blood…
Why is he coughing? Pneumothorax? Cardiac asthma? His shirt was sodden. If a ball had touched his heart but not penetrated…
‘Well, I’m bloody afraid!’ I snapped, and tightened my hold on his thigh, digging my fingers into his unresisting flesh. ‘Do you think I’m just going to sit here and watch you die by inches?’
‘Aye.’ His eyes closed, and the word was no more than a whisper. His lips were white.
He sounded completely certain about it, and the fear that was swarming over my skin burrowed suddenly inward and seized my heart with its claws.
His blood was spreading slowly, dark and venous. I was kneeling in the blood-soaked mud and there were huge splotches of it on my apron, black-red; it felt warm on my skin, though that must only be the heat of the day.
‘You can’t,’ I said, helpless. ‘Jamie—you can’t.’
His eyes opened and I saw them look past and through me, as though fixed on something far, far away.
‘For…give me…’ he said, his voice no more than a thread, and I didn’t know whether he spoke to me or to God.
‘Oh, Jesus,’ I said, tasting cold iron on my tongue. ‘Jamie—please. Please don’t go.’
His eyelids fluttered, and closed.”

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[> Oh my goodness the tears reading this, so gut wrenching, Diana is such a splendid writer to evoke such strong emotions -- Cait, Sat, June 18 2022, 6:25:19


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[> Reading this part made me fear that it was Jamie that we would be telling the bees he was gone, but I also thought, "No, DG won't take Jamie from us (and Claire.) Not now. Not like this." -- DianaH, Mon, June 20 2022, 7:03:34


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