Favorite Quotes from the Outlander Series

These are from Dragonfly in Amber, which is why it is my favorite!

"Blood of my blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens. You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go."

"I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you---then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."
His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.
"Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well."

That chokes me up every time! Thanks for posting that. I love those moments.

here are some others that i love. It just doesn't get any better than Jamie!!!

From Outlander
"Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which ye call me names, insult my manhood, kick me in the ballocks and claw my face. Then I beat you half to death and tell ye all the most humiliating things have ever happened to me, and ye say ye love me." He laid his head on his knees and laughed some more. Finally he rose and held out a hand to me, wiping his eyes with the other.
"You're no verra sensible, Sassenach, but I like ye fine. Let's go."

"I want to hold you hard to me and kiss you, and never let you go. I want to take you to my bed and use you like a whore, 'til I forget that I exist. And I want to put my head in your lap and weep like a child."
The mouth turned up at one corner, and a blue eye opened slitwise.
"Unfortunately," he said, "I can't do any but the last of those without fainting or being sick again."

"Cut her down!"

The hangers-on dropped away and the waves of the crowd parted before him as he strode forward. The locksman watched him come, standing gape-jawed and frozen.

"I said: cut her down. Now!" the locks man, freed from his trance by the apocalyptic vision of red haired death bearing down on him, stirred himself and fumbled hastily for his dirk. The rope, sawn through, let go with a shuddering snap and my arms dropped like bolsters, aching with released strain. I staggered and would have fallen, but a strong familiar hand caught my elbow and pulled me upright. Then my face was against Jamie's chest and nothing mattered to me anymore. I may have lost consciousness for a few moments, or only been so overcome with relief that it seemed that way, Jamie’s arm was hard around my waist holding me up, and his plaid had been thrown over me, hiding me at last from the stare of the villagers. There was a confusion of voices all around, but it was no longer the crazed and gleeful bloodlust of the mob. The voice of mutt-- or was it Jeff?-- cut through the confusion.

"Who are you? How dare you to interfere with the investigations of the court?" I could feel, rather than see, the crowd pushing forward. Jamie was large, and he was armed, but he was only one man. I cowered against him under the folds of the plaid. His right arm tightened around me, but his left went to the sheath on his hip. The silver blue blade hissed with menace as it came half out of its scabbard, and those in the fore-front of the crowd came to as sudden stop. The judges were made of somewhat tougher fabric. Peering out from my hiding place, I could see Jeff glaring at Jamie. Mutt appeared more bemused than annoyed at this sudden intrusion.

"Do you dare to draw arms against the justice of God?" snapped the tubby little judge. Jamie drew the sword completely with a flash of steel, then thrust it point first into the ground, leaving the hilt quivering with the force of the blow.

“I draw it in defense of this woman, and the truth," he said. "If any here be against those two, they'll answer to me, and then God, in that order."

The judge blinked once or twice, as though unable to credit this behavior, the surged to attack once more.
"You have no place in the workings of this court, sir; I’ll demand that you surrender the prisoner at once. Your own behavior will be dealt with presently."
Jamie looked the judges over, coolly. I could feel his heart hammering beneath my cheek as I clung to him, but his hands were rock steady; one resting on the hilt of his sword, the other on the dirk at his belt.

"As to that, sir, I swore an oath before the alter of God to protect this woman, and if you're telling me that you consider your own authority to be greater than that of The Almighty, then I must inform you that I’m no of that opinion myself."

thanks KristiCritchley! I just love that!!

Hi KristiCritchley,
I wonder if you can tell me exactly were you got the above quote from.
It has been awhile since I have read all of the series but, I do not remember that quote and I can't read all the books over. :-)
thanks for your help.

#6 HDragonesse - I can help with this, if you don't mind me answering instead of KristiCritchley. The scene she mentions is from the original Outlander book. It is the section where Claire is in the thieves hole with Gillis Duncan and have been put on trial for witchcraft. Hope this helps!

Thank you for the quick response. That was many, many pages ago.

No problem. I practically have the books memorized, I think, having either read or listened to them multiple times!

Can you go thru your memory bank again and tell me which book this was in? Roger & Brianna went to go get Jemmy from a party and Roger got drunk and sang or hummed to Brianna while taking her.

I do not have the books handy, but I believe that came from the chapter "The Lists of Venus" (I think that is what it was called) in The Fiery Cross. I have not read the more recent books as many times as the others, so don't hold me to that! Sorry I cannot be more helpful.

thank you so much. I am sure you are right on target.

Okay, sorry that is not the one I was thinking of.
Fergus took Jemmy with his family to a wedding and Jemmy had too much Cherry Punch.

Roger & Brianna felt an urgency to get Jemmy for some reason and decided to go to the wedding and get him. Roger went to console a friend for a few minutes and came back to Brianna a bit drunk.

Does that help?
Thanks so much for all your help with this. I do appreciate it.

#10 - that's from A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Germaine and Jemmy get soused on the cherry cough syrup punch and pass out.