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Date Posted: Fri, July 08 2022, 6:14:02
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Friday, July 8, 2022

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 69 Sparrow-Fart


When I’d lost him the first time, before Culloden, I’d remembered. Every moment of our last night together. Tiny things would come back to me through the years: the taste of salt on his temple and the curve of his skull as I cupped his head; the soft fine hair at the base of his neck, thick and damp in my fingers . . . the sudden, magical well of his blood in the dawning light when I’d cut his hand and marked him forever as my own. Those things had kept him by me.

And when I’d lost him this time, to the sea, I’d remembered the sense of him beside me. Warm and solid in my bed, and the rhythm of his breathing. The light across the bones of his face in the moonlight and the flush of his skin in the rising sun. I could hear him breathe when I lay in bed alone in my room at Chestnut Street - slow, regular, never stopping - even though I knew it had stopped. The sound would comfort me, then drive me mad with the knowledge of loss, so I pulled the pillow hard over my head in a futile attempt to shut it out - only to emerge into the night of the room, thick with woodsmoke and candle wax and vanished light, and be comforted to hear it once more.

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[> This is so beautiful. The tiny, intimate things - not heaving bosoms and engorged cocks. There are so many books now I forget a lot in the last four. I’m so glad we do QOTD because I can savor these special moments that I didn’t remember. -- Kathy in PA, Fri, July 08 2022, 12:18:50


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[> [> I love the quiet moments almost more than the big ones. -- kgp, Sat, July 09 2022, 6:46:17


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