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Date Posted: Sat, September 23 2023, 4:53:12
Author: Kathy in PA
Subject: QOTD for Saturday September 23, 2023 from “Dragonfly In Amber” by Diana Gabaldon published 1992.


Prologue (This one wasn’t all caps)

I woke three times in the dark predawn. First in sorrow, then in joy, and at the last, in solitude. The tears of a bone-deep loss woke me slowly, bathing my face like the comforting touch of a damp cloth in soothing hands. I turned my face to the wet pillow and sailed a salty river into the caverns of grief remembered, into the subterranean depths of sleep.

I came awake then in fierce joy, body arched bowlike in the throes of physical joining, the touch of him fresh on my skin, dying along the paths of my nerves as the ripples of consummation spread from my center. I repelled consciousness, turning again, seeking the sharp, warm smell of a man’s satisfied desire, in the remaining arms of my lover, sleep.

The third time I woke alone, beyond the touch of love or grief. The sight of the stones was fresh in my mind. A small circle, standing stones in the crest of a steep green hill. The name of the hill is Craigh na Dun; the fairies’ hill. Some say the hill is enchanted, others say it is cursed. Both are right. But no one knows the function or the purpose of the stones.

Except me. (So faaaarrr………)



We’re getting the edge of Ophelia so we’ve gone from beautiful fall days to dreary, rainy, cold Saturday. So I thought I’d end with a little heat. Lol

This is a teeny glimpse of why Diana was put in the “bodice ripper” genre by some.

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