"All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory."

Death, Loss, Memory, Truth, Life

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"All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory."

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"Don't go overboard in avoiding "said. Basically, "said is the default for dialogue, and a good thing, too; it's an invisible word that doesn't draw attention to itself."

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"When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman."

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