You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones!

The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

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.

If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.

Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary.