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'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

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

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.

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.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

He's a man and that's no small thing to be.

Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.