Book: She is a stranger. Book 2. Battle for love

The actions of each of us impact the future.

No man can serve two masters, especially a woman.

In the end, I thought, what the days and weeks in the face of eternity?
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But if there was eternity, or just the idea of eternity, it is likely that Anselm is right: anything is possible. All - love? I got to thinking. I loved Frank - I continued to love him. And I loved Jamie more than life itself. Bounded by the limits of time and flesh, I could not hold both. And in the hereafter? If there's a place where time does not exist anymore or it stops? Anselm thinks so. A place where everything is possible. And nothing need.
Is there love there? Beyond the boundaries of flesh and time is it possible to love? Whether it is necessary?

Damn small distance between justice and cruelty...

I myself can stand the pain, its own, but could not bear yours. This required a lot more effort than I have.

- But there was still another reason. The most important one.
- Drive? - stupid I asked.
- Why I married you.
- What is the reason?
I never imagined I would hear. Further disclosure of complex family matters and relationships. But what he said just struck me.
- I wanted you. he turned to face me. More than anything in my entire life, ' he added quietly.
I stared at him. What I did not expect. He quietly continued:
When I asked my dad how do I know if it's a woman, he replied that the hour comes - and I have no doubt. And they were not. When I woke up in the dark under a tree on the road to Leoch, and you sat on my chest and cursed me for what I'm losing blood, I said to myself, "Jamie Fraser, even though you don't know, looks like this woman, even though she weighs like a good horse, but is it the most".

- How did you know? asked Hamish.
- Know what?
- What is the lady you need to marry, impatiently said the boy.
- Oh that! Jamie leaned back and leaned back against the wall, his hands behind his head. You see, I was once asked about my father. He said to me, you know. And if you do not know, so it's not the same girl.