Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

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

We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.

...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.

And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.

Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary.

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.