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41 " Only one man walked with that kind of impatience—as if he was waiting for the world to catch up to him. "
― Monica McCarty , The Striker (Highland Guard, #10)
42 " Brigid was the riggings to her sail. She didn’t let her get carried away. Well, too carried away. "
43 " I love you, Bella. I will love you not until my dying day, but from the heights of heaven or the depths of hell until my soul ceases to be. "
― Monica McCarty , The Viper (Highland Guard, #4)
44 " I would have you be the honorable man I thought you were for my whole life. I’d have you understand that what you have offered me, what you planned for us, is more impossible than marriage. I would have you love me enough not to even ask the question. "
― Monica McCarty , The Knight (Highland Guard, #7.5)
45 " Joanna, what does mo ghra mean?"Joanna smiled. "It's a term of affection- an endearment. It means 'my love'."Rosalin felt her heart rise up high in her chest and lock in her throat, cutting off her breath. My love. Not "my beautiful one." The sneaky devil! He'd lied to her! Lied!And she'd never been more happy in her life. "
― Monica McCarty , The Raider (Highland Guard, #8)
46 " She’d loved him too much and given too much of herself away in the process. "
47 " But she’d never been smart when it came to Duncan Campbell. "
― Monica McCarty , Highland Scoundrel (Campbell Trilogy, #3)
48 " I know you were hoping for a different ending," Lachlan said quietly. This war had already exacted so much from her. But Bella refused to let it cost her her daughter. "It's not the end, it's only the beginning." With Lachlan by her side, she would fight to the end. "
49 " As you can imagine, figuring out the possible motivations for why someone would have allied with Bruce or Comyn (and the English), given all these interrelations, can be a puzzle of its own. But there is another consequence of all these intermarriages that I really didn’t “get” at first, which also complicated the decision for many of Scottish nobles. We think of Scotsmen or Englishmen as either/or. But the practical effect of all these marriages was a class of nobles who had significant land interests on both sides of the border. "
― Monica McCarty , The Recruit (Highland Guard, #6)
50 " She couldn’t seem to get enough of him. Passion had been absent "
51 " Noticing her, he barely covered "
52 " scandal, the repercussions could be horrible. She remembered how it had been when her mother had left. The stares, the whispering, the suddenly quiet rooms when she entered. Being rendered a bastard would be much worse. She couldn’t do that to her son. "
53 " Make it feel like the bottom of her heart had just dropped out? “If "
54 " might not be able to help him clear his name, but she "
55 " it had felt to know she was pregnant and alone. How her "
56 " for her son who would never know his father. She wept until she "
57 " wanted Duncan to leave—the danger to her son had not lessened—but she could wait until he recovered. She’d almost "
58 " never thought …” Her voice dropped off. But when "
59 " unfocused, so heavy with "