Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Read between April 15 - April 21, 2025
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“It only means ‘Englishman,’ after all, or at worst, ‘outlander,’ and we’re all of that.”
Chloe
He said the line!!!!
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“Umm, yes. Yes, of course.” Carefully not meeting my eye, Frank shrugged into his overcoat and left, collecting an umbrella from the stand by the door.
Chloe
Suspicious!!!!
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“I’m afraid my wife picked up a number of, er, colorful expressions from the Yanks and such,” Frank offered, with a nervous smile.
Chloe
Lol wow ok
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As I had said, there was no evidence whatsoever to imply unfaithfulness on my part. My part. But six years, as he’d said, was a long time.
Chloe
Yeah exactly... Leave this man!!
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After six years apart, and six months together, my husband was still something of a stranger.
Chloe
Leave him!!!
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Plainly I was going to have to go and read Captain Jonathan Randall’s laundry bill, his receipt for boot repairs, or some document of similar fascination.
Chloe
She is really suffering
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as though he could not bear to let the papers out of his sight for a moment.
Chloe
This guy is so annoying
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Getting up once in the dark to go adventuring is a lark. Twice in two days smacks of masochism.
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He certainly seemed to know a lot about maneuvering soundlessly in the dark.
Chloe
he keeps on getting more suspicious
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“Yon wee stramash didna do it any good,” he admitted, massaging the shoulder with his free hand.
Chloe
I seriously have no clue what these people are saying
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What they won’t know is that Jamie MacTavish is the man that’s wanted; provided nobody that knows me by my own name sees me.”
Chloe
Why is he revealing this to her for nothing
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Alec McMahon MacKenzie,
Chloe
Omg a mcman
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For a young man on the run, with unknown enemies, Jamie had been remarkably confiding to a stranger.
Chloe
Ikr
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like he knows I’ve red hair,
Chloe
HEs been a redhead this whole time??
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I was an outlander,
Chloe
Omg they said it again
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And I began to forgive him for what he had done to me.
Chloe
Well i havent omg i really hate jamie now
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Here, in this time, the mark of sorcery, the mark of a magus. The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination.
Chloe
Holy shit?!!!
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I did my best to look soft-headed, no great effort in my present state of mind.
Chloe
Me
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His new daughter, unimpressed by the introduction, closed her eyes in concentration, stiffened, and urinated on her father’s shirt.
Chloe
I dont think newborns urinate?
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“Now kiss me,” he said softly, and lowered his head to Jamie’s unresisting mouth.
Chloe
What the hell is going on. Hes bi now?
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Brother Ambrose was tall—even taller than Jamie—and cadaverous, with the long, drooping face of a basset hound. And ten long, skinny fingers, every one of them bright green.
Chloe
Lmao
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It did not hurt, precisely, but it felt verra queer.
Chloe
Omg
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“Not done yet, Fraser,” I whispered in his ear, trying as best I could to catch the rhythm of Randall’s clipped consonants.
Chloe
Wtf is going on
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“M-mother?” he said. The hair stood up on the back of my neck. It was the high, pure voice of a young boy. “Mother?”
Chloe
This is so fucking crazy
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He smiled slowly, eyes half-closing. “No, Sassenach, I don’t.”
Chloe
So she cured his suicidal ideation by retraumatizing him
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“Weel, when I said I wouldna let him pass, young Jamie just looked at me for a moment. Then he gave me a smile looked just like his ma’s, and stepped out of the window in naught but his skin. By the time I got to the window, he was gone.”
Chloe
Hes literally batshit