If he’s an honorable, decent man, he’ll want you. If he doesn’t, he doesn’t deserve you. And I will travel through time myself to tell him.[to Brianna, about Roger]
I’ve never been very good at saying goodbye, but that’s the hell of it, isn’t it? Whether you want to say goodbye or not, they’re gone, and you have to go on living without them. Because that’s what they would want.
I’d take a starving Highlander over a drunken British soldier any day.
I would give up everything I have for us to be together again. Don’t you see? Since you left, I’ve been living in the shadows. And then you walked into the print shop, and it was as if the sun returned and cast out the darkness.[to Claire]
I suppose men can make all the laws they like, but God made hope. The stars will not burn out, and nor will we.[to Claire]
I pay for my pleasures. I’m an honest man for a pirate.
I ken what love can make a man do. Gives ye courage, but not the sense to go along wi’ it.
I find war preferable to politics. At least in war, you know your enemies.
I believe that ghosts only exist when there is something to be remembered, a story worth telling, or a message worth relaying.
How could I say no to a man who pursued me for 200 years?[to Roger]
Home is where the heart is, but it’s also the place where it can be broken.
False accusations can lead to dire consequences.
