Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where th — Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where th — Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where th — Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where th — Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where th — Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
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Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…

— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
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