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  1. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    had 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 unconscious knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times {like these? asked another part of my mind}, 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.
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  2. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    a bit self-conscious. "I used to wear mine long as well. It's short now because the monks had to shave the back of my head and it's had but a few months to grow again." He bent forward at the waist, inviting me
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  3. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    ...we've had some luck, both good and bad.
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  4. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    I was becoming slightly bored
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  5. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    I felt adrift, anchorless in a running sea. This is now my home.
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  6. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle. Past that certain point, you
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  7. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    The lad's offering to take the girl's punishment for her," she said absently, peeking around a spectator in front of us.
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  8. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    A vida entre acadêmicos ensinara-me que uma opinião bem expressada em geral é melhor do que um fato mal expressado no que diz respeito a progresso profissional.
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  9. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    Just as my grandmother taught me, and her grandmother before her.
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  10. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    I marched into the shop and bought the vases.
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  11. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    The men's attention had shifted to a young man crouched on a stool in the corner. He had barely looked up through my appearance and interrogation, but kept his head bent, hand clutching the opposite shoulder, rocking slightly back and forth in pain.
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  12. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    Ah?" he said, vaguely. "No, I dinna think so. Still," he said with a smile, pulling his attention suddenly back to her, "I wouldna be likely to. A young burke of sixteen's too taken up wi' his own grand self to pay much heed to what he thinks are naught but a rabble of snot-nosed bairns.
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