The Ballad of Roger Mac

Outlander 5×7

Brianna: You know, if we were back in Oxford in our own time, we'd be making our lunchboxes and seeing each other off to work. Now here I am seeing you off to war.

Jamie: How did ye ken what I was doing? "Taking stock," as ye say.
Claire: I do it too before every birthday. I like to reflect on the year past. I think everybody does. Just making sure that you're the same person as you were the day before.

Jamie: War's not like hunting. The deer and the possums are not trying to kill ye.
— But Ma says the point of hunting is to kill something, and the point of going to war is to come back alive.
Jamie: War is killing, that's that. Think of anything less, think of yer own skin, then ye'll be dead by nightfall. Ye canna waver.

Brianna: Wait. If we do stop this fight now, what if... doesn't that mean the Revolutionary War won't happen?
Roger: And America will never become America.

Roger: Murtagh, most of your men have never even seen a cannon. You have no officers, you have no cavalry, you have no artillery. Listen to me, man. You cannot win. You do not win. The history has been written.
Murtagh: Then I do fight.

Murtagh: How can I tell them to cast aside everything they've fought for, just give up? They'll not be giving up. They'll be living to fight another day.
Roger: And if-if they wait... If you wait, in a few years, we'll all be fighting on the same side.
Murtagh: Do ye ken how long a few years is to men who've lost everything?

Murtagh: Dinna be afraid... It doesn't hurt a bit to die.

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