How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
The demon had me up against the wall; I could feel stone behind my head and stone beneath my grasping fingers, and a stone-hard body pressing hard against me, bony knee between my own, stone and bone, between my own… legs, more stony hardness… ah. A softness amidst the hardness of life, pleasant coolness in the heat, comfort in the midst of woe. (39.162)
This sex scene is practically an exorcism, with the reference to a demon and the sheer intensity of it. Claire's tactic here seems to be to shag all the trauma of Randall's rape out of Jamie.