And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

But looking beautiful isn't, I think, as important as feeling beautiful.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie

Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.

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

If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

Lord that she might be safe. She and my children.

Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.