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Date Posted: Sun, September 17 2023, 8:44:16
Author: Kathy in PA
Subject: QOTD for Sunday, September 17, 2023. From “Written In My Own Heart’s Blood” by Diana Gabaldon. Published 2014 - Can you believe it?!

PROLOGUE

In the light of eternity, time casts no shadow.

“Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.” (Should be in italics)
But what is it that the old women see?
We see necessity, and we do the things that must be done.

Young women don’t see - they ARE, and the spring of life runs through them.

Ours is the guarding of the spring, ours the shielding of the light we have lit, the flame that we are.

What have I seen? You are the vision of my youth, the constant dream of all my ages.

Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own…….. and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered only by the outlines of a face long-loved.



The prologues always make me cry. There’s so much wrapped up in them and I confess I usually never bothered to read prologues before. Now they get their own “time” as each new book comes out.

This is Claire to Bri, basically, right? But how many old and young women can relate to this? To either or both?

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[> I see myself and my daughter in this. <3 -- DianaH, Mon, September 18 2023, 12:32:48


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[> [> Me too ❤️. -- Kathy in PA, Tue, September 19 2023, 14:15:42


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