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“the core of everything jamie does is claire.”
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“so you married me to keep me safe?”
“i went to you at fort william, armed with an empty pistol and my bare hands. when you screamed, you're tearing my guts out claire.”
“i thought it wouldna pain me much as it once might have. you are my home now.”
“i swore an oath before the altar of god to protect this woman! [...] the first man forward will be the first man down.”
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“i believe ye, sassenach. i dinna understand it a bit, not yet. but i trust you, i trust that there's a truth between us so whatever you tell me i will believe ye.”
“i can bear pain myself but i couldna bear yours, that would take more strength than i have.”
“you certainly have high opinion of what a crippled highlander and a pregnant english woman can accomplish.”
“now it is my turn to ask you for a promise. promise me that if the time comes, you will go back to the stones, back home.”
“no matter what happens, i'll make sure you're safe.”
“god shield my beloved, my white dove. and the child that she may one day bear. preserve her from violence and harm, in this place and every place, on this night and every night.”
“claire is my wife, you will not speak ill of her even in your anger.”
“i will find you, i promise. if i must endure 200 years of purgatory, 200 years without you then that is my punishment that i have earned for my crimes.”
“i learned the trick from a lass. . . who knew a fair amount about healing.”
“i thought that maybe you'd returned, that you were out there. so i swam to it, out of my mind with cold.”
“i prayed for the ones i've lost. i pray for my wife.
you haven't a wife.
not anymore, but i remember her always.”
you haven't a wife.
not anymore, but i remember her always.”
“i would sacrifice honor, family, life itself to see you and lie with you again.”
“being a printer was naught compared to being your husband.”
“if ye ken what love is then ye would move heaven and earth. you would risk arrest or death, even hell. you would do it as easily as a prick of a pin. i lost her once, fergus. i canna lose her again.”
“i dinna wish to fight in wars again or have you in danger, sassenach but if there's a bit i can do to make this a good land for brianna. if my presence here now can be felt by her later, then that would be something.”
“i would lay the world at your feet, claire yet i have nothing to give ye.”
“i had murtagh make it, from one of the silver candlesticks. i ken my mother would give her blessing to fashion part of it into a ring for ye.”
“she is a gift, from me to you and you to me.”
“what are we thanking the lord for? for the sight of you, sassenach.”
“i've no life but you, claire but if you wanted another child then perhaps i might give you one, one that you wouldna have to suffer carrying.”
“dougal will ken i did what i had to do for my men, for you.”
“whether i'm dead or you, whether we're together or apart. i will always love you.”
“and i will not light the cross again until it is time for us to do battle.”
“she's bound by an oath. she may not kill for her own life, it is myself that kills for her.”
“when the day shall come that we do part, if my last words are not i love you. ye ken it's because i dinna have time.”
