Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

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.

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.

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

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)