Jan Cox Speas

“She wanted to tell him how it was with her, but she could not. She could not tell him that when she…

— Jan Cox Speas

“Aye, she thought, women must ever wait and steel their hearts against loneliness and fear; and the men would go riding out…

— Jan Cox Speas

“She had never thought her name lovely until she heard him say it, his warm Scots voice lingering softly over the word.”

— Jan Cox Speas

“Above her, the triple summit of Ben Cruachan overhung the loch like a thundercloud; and the hills lay piled against one another,…

— Jan Cox Speas

“The MacHugh thought it small wonder that he had loved her from his first sight of her. She was gay and lovely…

— Jan Cox Speas

“No pain is unbearable except that of regret.”

— Jan Cox Speas

“It was good, she reflected, to be among the proud Gaels. There was no formality among men here, where a man's pride…

— Jan Cox Speas

“I had been too long in a hot land. The skies were always blue and one never escaped from the smell of…

— Jan Cox Speas

“Aye, he thought, loyalty, that most irrevocable of clan codes, was a point of honor more fiercely and tenaciously held than a…

— Jan Cox Speas

“The honor a man carries in his heart cannot be explained, lass," he said slowly. "Nor can you measure the courage of…

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“Honesty must sometimes be taken in small measure, like a bitter medicine.”

— Jan Cox Speas

“Dreams were frail things, when all was said, and loneliness the only certainty.”

— Jan Cox Speas