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

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

I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.

I was crying for joy, my Sassenach,' he said softly. He reached out slowly and took my face between his hands. "And thanking God that I have two hands. That I have two hands to hold you with. To serve you with, to love you with. Thanking God that I am a whole man still, because of you.