You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.

I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.

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

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

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