Outlander

the nick of time

a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact

Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations.

Then let amorous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A Thousand and a Hundred score
A Hundred, and a Thousand more.

It was no romantic pledge he had made me, but the blunt promise to guard my safety at the cost of his own.

Because to step outside the group, let alone to stand against it, was for uncounted thousands of years death to the creature who dared it.

"How could the people have let it happen? They must have known, must have seen the trucks, the coming and going, the fences and smoke. How could they stand by and do nothing?

And then you found that the sound went straight through you, and each syllable was crystal clear, whether you understood it or not, echoing poignantly inside your head.

International financiers change their names and vanish into the smoke of imported cigars.
Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations.
Usually.

People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.
Young girls run away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. Inter