The greatest thing in a man’s life is to lie wi’ a woman he loves.
It’s a lot easier to get punched in the face at three-and-twenty than to have your bum strapped in public at sixteen. Bruised pride hurts worse than anything, and it bruises easy then.
If women’s work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn’t being accomplished at any given moment?
I will find you. 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 the 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.
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.
I can bear pain, myself, but I could not bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.
Highlanders make the truest friends—if only because they make the worst enemies.
For a virtuous woman is a pearl of great price, and her value is greater than rubies.
Don’t be afraid. There’s the two of us now.
Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn’t always a misfortune—so long as you didn’t actually die of it.
Blood of my blood, 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.
A marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it.