I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.

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But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupp...
DIANA GABALDON

Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN I let ya in—into my life...my death...my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face....
JANAE MITCHELL

You need something," he said, and when I stared at him, he added, "Your face."
"My face?"
...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT

I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. �...
DIANA GABALDON

You’re mine, mo duinne,” he said softly, pressing himself into my depths. “Mine alone, now and...
DIANA GABALDON

We still have a lot to talk about," I said. "Talk?" He shook his head, his eyes full of desire. K...
BECCA FITZPATRICK I laughed as I twisted to face him and raised my arm to hit in one move. He caught my wrist and my l...
MICHELLE HODKIN You turn me on.” He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek.” PENELOPE DOUGLAS Honestly, as much as I love my brother, I’m not sure how I feel about him hanging out in your bedr...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT He put a hand to my face and guided my eyes to his. "We never lost that. As much as I tried, I could...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN From my understanding, he died in his brother's arms. He was still breathing. He said that he said, ...
CLARA WARD Fix me," I commanded him. "This thing, what I've done - there's something wrong with me, Noah. Fix i...
MICHELLE HODKIN He has been wanting to talk to the police, ... He was pretty frantic to talk to the police. I advise...
CHRIS COLLINS But then she snapped your neck.”
Tears rolled down his face.
“And I felt you die,” ...
SARAH J. MAAS You know I love you," I whispered in his ear.
"I know," he whispered back, turned, I pulled my ...
KRISTEN ASHLEY You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So y...
JODI PICOULT He makes a face and tosses the flower at me. It lands on my cheek, and I pick it up and twirl it bet...
JESSICA KHOURY Then I whispered, “I love you, my Lahn,” and heard the swift hiss of his intake of breath. Then ...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Peter," she whispered and reached out, touching his cheek. "My little Peterbird? You flew back to me...
BROM I needed him to touch me, and let me know that he was still my Darkness, still my Doyle. He whispere...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,” he said, “That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and qui...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Raphael turned me over and looked at me, his face close to mine. "You and I will never be done.You'r...
ILONA ANDREWS His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, “Kelsey, when a ...
COLLEEN HOUCK Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was so important that I had to risk my friends' safety to sneak out here?" I demanded. "Huh? Wh...
ALLY CARTER And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes search...
LISA KLEYPAS He stopped and took my hand. "If we die, or if I die..."
He was speaking of dying, and I couldn...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE He opened his eyes to reveal the storm within him.
“My every instinct is telling me to have ...
WENDY HIGGINS I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA This is me trying, Perry,” he said softly, the anger being drained of his face. “This is me taki...
KARINA HALLE Noah sits up, and when I try to duck out of reach, he advances like a tiger and flips me so that I�...
KATIE MCGARRY His gold eyes grew very soft. “You said you loved me.”
“You knew that already,” I remin...
STEPHENIE MEYER This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining ...
ZIGGY MARLEY I'll talk to him and find out who he is, ... to my satisfaction.
CARL WEBSTER It was him. I tackled him and hugged him. We fell to the ground. He was my son. He was my heart. . ....
TERRY CARTER And just as I start to move past him, my hip accidentally rubs against his, and his face is so close...
ALYSON NOEL My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I ...
LAILA ALI I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie’s cheek.
“FUCK,” he shouted, wiping it off. “What if...
MICHELLE HODKIN What he showed me at first scared me, ... He showed me his swatches, and I just turned and made a fa...
EUGENE RICHARDS Please, Katsa," he finally said. "At least talk to me".
She swung around to face him. "What it ...
KRISTIN CASHORE I came to love, I came into my own.
THEODORE ROETHKE I'll talk to my owners. I haven't peaked him yet. I want to see how good he is when he peaks.
KIRK ZAIDIE He gently pried my hand off his arm. "I have to," he said softly. He went to turn away, and then sto...
RACHEL HAWKINS Green smiled at me, all that compassion in his eyes, and he cupped my face in his hands, as
tho...
AMY LANE You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap.
"Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay wit...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER (It's) really the embodiment of my big brother. He was about a foot shorter than me, and I outweigh ...
JOE SHIELDS Is that a yes?" he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my shoulders an...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believ...
SHARON SHINN I want so many things,” he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your t...
TAHEREH MAFI In my rush, I hadn’t tied my shoelaces. Noah was now tying them for me.
He looked up at me t...
MICHELLE HODKIN I pull on his fingers softly, tired of this talk. “I have something to tell you…”

H...
STEPHANIE LIACI You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno...
A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE With painstaking rumination, the tips of his fingers grazed over my neck, a deafening silence. I did...
RAE HACHTON He's not in a very good mood," said Luke, pausing in front of a closed door. "I shut him up in Freak...
CASSANDRA CLARE I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come...
SARAH DESSEN Unfortunately, I never saw Pele play. What I know of him is through my grandfather, my dad's dad...
NEYMAR I never even heard of him or met him in my life. But when I got downstairs, he said, 'I've been wait...
HAL TURNER Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He...
CHARLAINE HARRIS How could I not know him, ... He beat me up with savagery and brutality. I will always remember his ...
ZHAO YAN Noah’s hands ease down my arms, then he folds me into him. His front heating my back. He dips his ...
KATIE MCGARRY He limped slowly over to his own wooden sword and stooped awkwardly to pick it up. Trailing it on th...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you haven't guessed it already," I said, something fervent and resonating slipping into my tone, ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often y...
SYLVIA DAY To my surprise, Nick reached under his shirt and pulled out the half-heart pendant. With his gaze fi...
KATHERINE ALLRED Kitten,” he growled roughly.
I kissed him softly, sliding my hands into his silky locks, lett...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Turning my head so I can look into his eyes, I strum my fingers across his cheek. “You’re right....
J.B. MCGEE He reached in my car, unlocked the door, ripped me out of the car and he actually threw me on the gr...
ROBERT GRIFFIN I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting...
TARA STRONG Can I touch you?”
His lashes closed, resting on the tops of his tanned, sculpted cheeks as hi...
LINDA KAGE I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll...
SUSAN EE When I go see him, I talk to him through a glass window, and it's hard to talk to somebody like that...
CLINTON SOLOMON He started to say something, maybe an apology and maybe not, and then he stopped, he leaned over and...
JENNY HAN When I called him I asked if he had heard about my brothers and my daddy. He said: 'Your cousins lie...
ALONZO HORTON Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own.
"Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" VERONICA ROTH Charlie got this sly look on his face, ... And then he said, 'I want you to put my ashes on all the ...
RICHARD KANE I could talk to him. He would ride in my car. We were really buddies.
CARLOS CHITTY You can’t tell me
what to do anymore, Travis! I don’t belong to you!”
In the second ...
JAMIE MCGUIRE Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without ...
DIANA GABALDON I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in.
"He was scared to live," he said kissing ...
MELINA MARCHETTA He was my entire world. He still is. My best friend, lover, partner in crime and my other soul. But ...
DOMINIC RICCITELLO Are you mine?” I asked as I wiped my tears.
He kissed the corners of my mouth softly, and I f...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and sa...
BIBLE Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fin...
MARIE LU Then he slid his hand into my hair and pulled me closer, and when he kissed me, my heart hurt from h...
KRISTAN HIGGINS You’re breaking my heart.”
At the sound of Rider’s voice, I wheeled around, clutching my ...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I carry my own church about under my own hat, said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to h...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and...
VERONICA ROTH And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she w...
SARAH DESSEN He poked his finger into my chest again. “Well, I have something to tell you: don’t let the sun ...
ILONA ANDREWS Thank you,” I said, turning around a little so I could talk to him. “You’re a good friend.”<...
MONICA ALEXANDER Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my n...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native l...
WALTER SCOTT Jeff Loria in Houston (two weeks ago) came up to me and said, 'Don't pay attention to what you heard...
CARLOS DELGADO (Wilf) decided he wanted to sit down with me at some point later on and talk about some stuff. All h...
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DIANA GABALDON My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one ...
DIANA GABALDON You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had,...
DIANA GABALDON I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginn...
DIANA GABALDON Roger speaking to Brianna:
It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."
You do rem...
DIANA GABALDON I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...
DIANA GABALDON To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.
DIANA GABALDON When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...
DIANA GABALDON What . . . fellow?” The wind was cool, but I could see sweat trickling down the back of Jamie’s ...
DIANA GABALDON The position of sun and moon on the Feast of Beltane" is one, with a list if two hundred paired figu...
DIANA GABALDON For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “...
DIANA GABALDON If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband ...
DIANA GABALDON And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a dam...
DIANA GABALDON One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the wor...
DIANA GABALDON Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit c...
DIANA GABALDON I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an...
DIANA GABALDON (...) When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd h...
DIANA GABALDON Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does ...
DIANA GABALDON My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank G...
DIANA GABALDON Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment.

"Why?" he...
DIANA GABALDON Jaime, you must be half-dead"

He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm ha...
DIANA GABALDON ...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished ...
DIANA GABALDON For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he sai...
DIANA GABALDON Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for...
DIANA GABALDON Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking t...
DIANA GABALDON I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog b...
DIANA GABALDON When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ...
DIANA GABALDON I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. An...
DIANA GABALDON When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word...
DIANA GABALDON Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.
DIANA GABALDON I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. �...
DIANA GABALDON Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow....
DIANA GABALDON I fought back the memory of our wedding night. He was a virgin; his hands trembled when he touched m...
DIANA GABALDON Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
DIANA GABALDON A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
DIANA GABALDON Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d hea...
DIANA GABALDON Let me be enough,
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON Come to bed, a nighean. Nothing hurts when ye love me.” He was right; nothing did.
DIANA GABALDON Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some ...
DIANA GABALDON Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean."
He glanced at the house, then ...
DIANA GABALDON That dog is a wolf, is he not?'

'Aye, well, mostly.'

A small flash of hazel to...
DIANA GABALDON When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened ...
DIANA GABALDON For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard o...
DIANA GABALDON A man’s life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day.
DIANA GABALDON Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what...
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the ...
DIANA GABALDON Does your knee still hurt, Sassenach?” he asked, seeing me rub it. It hadn’t ever quite recovere...
DIANA GABALDON This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air...
DIANA GABALDON You do mean it, then,” I said. “You feel … er … betrothed to her?” “Well, of course ...
DIANA GABALDON And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which...
DIANA GABALDON Men are made in God's image, or so I am told. Likewise that we differ from the animals in having rea...
DIANA GABALDON Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and ...
DIANA GABALDON Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ...
DIANA ROSS The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
DIANA VREELAND I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
DIANA KRALL Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
DIANA VREELAND I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA

I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.

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I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.

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