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Date Posted: Wed, September 07 2022, 18:23:59
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Thursday, September 8, 2022

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 87 Moonrise


Perhaps this was purgatory, he thought, and gave a wan smile at memory of himself, waking on Culloden Moor so many years ago, his eyelids sealed with blood, thinking himself dead and grateful for it, even if his immediate prospect was a spell in purgatory - that being a vague, unknown circumstance, probably unpleasant but not one he feared.

He feared the one that might be imminent.

He had come to the conclusion that he couldn’t kill himself, even if she died. Even could he bring himself to commit a sin of that magnitude, there were people who needed him, and to abandon them would be a greater sin even than the willful destruction of God’s gift of life. But to live without her - he watched her breathe, obsessively, counting ten breaths before he would believe she hadn’t stopped - that would certainly be his purgatory.

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[> This whole heart wrenching section had me reading as fast as possible. -- DianaH, Thu, September 08 2022, 10:17:04


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[> [> I think I went pages and pages before I blinked. -- kgp, Fri, September 09 2022, 11:02:12


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