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“Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed.

Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.”

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Diana Gabaldon book The Scottish Prisoner

Source: The Scottish Prisoner

“When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”

“While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.”

Variant: When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
Source: The Fiery Cross

“We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.”

Source: The Fiery Cross

“I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy, too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.”

Source: Outlander

“He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.”

Source: Outlander

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

“Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?”

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

“There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.”

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

Source: Outlander

“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.”

Source: Outlander

Diana Gabaldon

“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.”

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

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

“Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime”

Source: The Fiery Cross

“You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live.”

Source: Outlander

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

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

“I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.”

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

“Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.”

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

“I loveI have loved ye from the moment I saw ye, I will love ye ’til time itself is done, and so long as you are by my side, I am well pleased wi’ the world.”

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

“No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.”

Source: The Fiery Cross