He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

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

I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and frequently copulated, crammed into tiny, stifling cottages, lit and warmed by smoky peat fires. The only thing they didn't do together was bathe - largely because they didn't bathe.

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.

I was born for you" -Claire Fraser, Outlander

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.

"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.