Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours.

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

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

Home is the place where they have to take you in

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.