A Practical Guide for Time-Travelers

Outlander 7×7

Jamie Fraser: Brought ye a present, Sassenach.
Claire Fraser: Oh? What is it? Geese or ducks this time?
Jamie Fraser: No. It's a book.
Claire Fraser: A book?
Jamie Fraser: Aye. Words printed on paper. Ye'll recall the sort of thing.

Jamie Fraser: Sassenach. I hadna realized, but, uh, ye need spectacles.
Claire Fraser: That's nonsense. I can see perfectly well.
Jamie Fraser: Well, then read this.
Claire Fraser: How am I supposed to read that? It's terribly small type.
Jamie Fraser: It's 12-point Caslon. I will say, the... the leading's terrible. The gutters are half of what they should be. And even so, ye need spectacles, a nighean.
Claire Fraser: We'll be blind as bats before this war is over.

Brianna Mackenzie: Do you take a little water?
William 'Buck' MacKenzie: If it was the rotgut I drank in America, I'd throw it down. Whiskey worth drinking, a little water opens the flavor. But ye ken that, don't ye? Though ye're not Scottish.
Brianna Mackenzie: Well I am, on my father's side. His name is... was James Fraser, of Broch Tuarach.
William 'Buck' MacKenzie: Are you another, then? Like your husband and me. Another... whatever it is?

Brianna Mackenzie: What?
William 'Buck' MacKenzie: Smilin' a bit too much in yer direction, methinks.
Brianna Mackenzie: All right. That's how people treat each other these days. It's called kindness. You might give it a try.
William 'Buck' MacKenzie: I'm only sayin', I'm no fool.

Roger Mackenzie: I didn't know whether to tell you because I... I don't even know if it's correct. But I saw the year of your death. Do you want to know?
William 'Buck' MacKenzie: No. But I'd like ye to tell me anyway.

Jamie Fraser: Will ye kiss me, Claire?
Claire Fraser: Always.

Lt Sandy Hammond: Who do you think has a better bosom? Mrs. Lind or the baroness?
William Ransom: I'd prefer not to comment on such a vulgar topic... This is it, Hammond.
Lt Sandy Hammond: Oh, I see. Evading the question. You have an eye for someone. What's her name?
William Ransom: It is unlikely I will ever see her again.
Lt Sandy Hammond: It won't matter if you tell me her name, then, will it?
William Ransom: It's Rachel, but she's...

General Fraser: If General Burgoyne can convince us that we are victorious, then we have prevailed.
William Ransom: Lieutenant Hammond is dead.
General Fraser: An honorable death. And I lived to tell the tale. "They send forth men to battle, but no such men return," so says Aeschylus. You're a different man now...
William Ransom: "They send forth men to battle, but no such men return. / And home, to claim their welcome, come the ashes in an urn."

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Where the Waters Meet

Outlander 7×6

Captain Richardson: How do you think wars are won, Lieutenant?
William Ransom: With victory on the battlefield, sir.
Captain Richardson: Without a doubt. But how do commanders know where that battlefield will be? How do they know the size and strength of their opponent? What their opponent's weaknesses are, how to exploit those weaknesses... Intelligence. And my many years of experience have taught me that the best intelligence comes from men the enemy trusts.
William Ransom: So those men are spies.
Captain Richardson: Eyes and ears for the British cause.

Captain Richardson: Do you know what else my years of experience have taught me, Lieutenant?
William Ransom: No, sir.
Captain Richardson: War is long. No doubt an opportunity for redemption will present itself.
William Ransom: I will be ready when it does, sir. You have my word.

Roger Mackenzie: That's as good a guess as any.
Brianna Mackenzie: Well, engineers prefer the term "working hypothesis."
Roger Mackenzie: It's as good a working hypothesis as any. I need this in my Hitchhiker's Guide to Time Travel.
Brianna Mackenzie: Wait a minute. That's what you're calling it? Like the BBC Radio comedy?
Roger Mackenzie: Not officially, but sometimes to myself, for fun.

Young Ian: Do you think the British Army will hang their prisoners?
Jamie Fraser: Aye. They dinna see them as prisoners of war. That would mean acknowledging the sovereignty of America. Instead, they see us as traitors to the crown.

Claire Fraser: May I ask, how did you know who I was?
Lieutenant Sandy Hammond: He said you'd be the curly-wig giving orders like a sergeant major.

Colonel Daniel Morgan: You do that a-purpose?
Jamie Fraser: Aye. I always shoot 'em through the eye. Best place if you dinna want to spoil the meat.

Claire Fraser: The Battle of Saratoga... Jamie, I don't remember much of the details, but this is a turning point for the American cause. The battle that draws the French into the war.
Jamie Fraser: Then you ken why I can't walk away.
Claire Fraser: I knew you wouldn't. But if you're going to fight, then I'm glad that you've accepted Colonel Morgan's offer.
Jamie Fraser: Aye? Why is that?
Claire Fraser: By their nature, snipers, that's what we call riflemen in the future, they fight from a distance. No soldier is safe, but the further you are from combat, the better.

Claire Fraser: I wonder, why is it that women don't make wars?
Jamie Fraser: You're not made for it, Sassenach.
Claire Fraser: You don't think women are just as capable as men at fighting for what they believe in?
Jamie Fraser: No. No, that's not what I mean. ... It's just that women take so much more wi' 'em when you go. When a man dies, it's only him. And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a man to feed them, protect them. Any decent man can do it. A woman takes a life wi' her when she goes. A woman is possibility.
Claire Fraser: If you think one man is just like another, then I can't agree with you.

Jamie Fraser: I may be less afraid for myself, I'm more reluctant to kill young men who havena yet lived their lives.
Claire Fraser: Surely you're not going to assess the ages of those shooting at you.
Jamie Fraser: Difficult.
Claire Fraser: I sincerely hope you don't intend to let some whippersnapper kill you just because he hasn't lived a life as full as yours yet.
Jamie Fraser: No. I'll kill them. I'll just mind it more.

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Singapore

Outlander 7×5

Brianna Mackenzie: I know Fort Ticonderoga; my father took me there.
Roger Mackenzie: Aye. We could always scour the history books, see if there's any mention of them.
Brianna Mackenzie: Not that one. Maybe it's better we don't know...

William Ransom: But say a crime were committed against your lovely sister, Mr. Hunter, or against your brother, Miss Hunter. You would hold fast to your principles?
Dr. Denzell Hunter: We rely upon God's judgment alone.
William Ransom: Or the willingness of others to commit violence for you.
Dr. Denzell Hunter: I think we shall have to agree to disagree on this matter. We Quakers cannot be shaken from our beliefs. We tremble only before God and His word.

Claire Fraser: It reminds me of the Battle of Singapore, though the other way around. In World War II, the British were stationed there, and General Percival had his guns aimed at the sea, convinced that the surrounding jungles were too dangerous and dense to penetrate.
Jamie Fraser: And he was proved to be wrong?
Claire Fraser: The Japanese cut their way through the jungles and attacked his defenses at the weakest point, by land. And seeing is believing. Of course, by that point, it was too late.

Jemmy Mackenzie: I... got in trouble at school.
Roger Mackenzie: What for?
Jemmy: Tommy Reid said me and Mama and Mandy were all gonna burn in hell as papists.
Roger Mackenzie: Well, you know what to say to that.
Jemmy Mackenzie: "I'll see ye there." And I did, only I said it in the Gaelic. Miss Glendenning didn't like that. She grabbed me by the ear and said, "In this classroom, we speak English." She shook me, Da. And I cursed at her, one of Grandda's curses. So she called the headmaster, and he made me hold out my hands and gave me three with the belt. Am I in trouble?

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A Most Uncomfortable Woman

Outlander 7×4

Brianna Mackenzie: We have a working kitchen. We have flushing toilets. We're living the 20th century dream.

Claire Fraser: ... But eat your apple as well. You are going to be on a ship for three months.
Jamie Fraser: If you say so, Sassenach.
Claire Fraser: I do say so. How many women do you know who are my age who still have all their own teeth?
Jamie Fraser: Mm, well, I admit you're very well preserved for such an old crone.

Claire Fraser: You want to fight?
Jamie Fraser: Aye... But not for the ideal of freedom or liberty. Not for the sake of being on the winning side. But for you. For Bri and the wee lad and lass. For our family. Because I canna ask anyone to fight in my place.
Claire Fraser: If that isn't an ideal, I don't know what is.

Jamie Fraser: I've lost so much. Nothing is guaranteed. Not home, not family, nor law, nor life itself. But I do ken we willna lose this war. At the very least, I can promise victory.

Tom Christie: Does, uh... does Mr. Fraser know? I did not tell him the reason for my confession.
Claire Fraser: You mean, does he know about your... gallant feelings towards me?
Tom Christie: Mm.
Claire Fraser: Yes, he does. He's sympathetic towards you, knowing from experience what it's like to... To love me, as it were.

Tom Christie: The Lord does answer prayer, you know?
Claire Fraser: What did you pray for?
Tom Christie: Oh, you are a most uncomfortable woman.

Rachel Hunter: At the last yearly meeting of the Society of Friends, we all prayed on the matter of politics. We were advised that peace lay in reconciliation with Mother England. But the Spirit moved my brother to speak in favor of independence.
Lord William Ransom: You mean a rebellion.
Rachel Hunter: I do not. Liberty is a gift from God. Denny said we must endeavor to preserve it.

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Death Be Not Proud

Outlander 7×3

Claire Fraser: Well, it's not January.
Jamie Fraser: Aye. And we're no' dead. So much for our obituary...
Claire Fraser: Bloody newspapers. Never get anything right.

Roger Mackenzie: You and your mother... the 18th century's lucky to have survived you.
Brianna Mackenzie: Me? Why are you saying that?
Roger Mackenzie: 'Cause, Brianna, it was you. You caused a fire that they survived. A different fire. Look at the date. The fire from the obituary didn't happen. It couldn't happen. There was nothing left to burn.

Jamie Fraser: When ye're called to the aid of a dying man... why is it that you never say no? Ever? Though you ken the case is hopeless?
Claire Fraser: Because I can't... Because I... I cannot admit there is anything to do but go on.
Jamie Fraser: Nor will I.

Young Ian: She's lyin' in there. And I canna take it back or undo it. And yet... I keep lookin' for some way that I can. Somethin' I can do to make it right...
Claire Fraser: Are you breathing, Ian?
Young Ian: Aye. I think so.
Claire Fraser: That's all you have to do for now.

Claire Fraser: The guardian?
Jamie Fraser: Aye. The last person to lie in a graveyard becomes its guardian. Must stand and guard until the next person dies and comes to take their place. Only then can they rest.
Claire Fraser: What is a guardian of the graveyard guarding? And from whom?
Jamie Fraser: Vandals. Desecraters, charmers. Even the dead may need defending. Who better to do that than a ghost?

Jamie Fraser: "Death, be not proud... Though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, For thou art not so. Poor Death, one short sleep past, we wake eternally, and Death shall be no more. Death, thou shalt die."

Claire Fraser: Personally, I prefer Robert Frost. "Home is the place where when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
Young Ian: No wonder you're fond of her, Uncle. She must be a rare comfort to you.
Jamie Fraser: Yeah. She keeps takin' me in. So... I suppose you must be home.

Claire Fraser: You really do know the proper prayer for every occasion, don't you?
Jamie Fraser: There's always a prayer, a nighean, even if it's only, "A Dhia, cuidich mi." Oh, God, help me.

Claire Fraser: Jamie... you will always be enough.

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The Happiest Place on Earth

Outlander 7×2

Claire Fraser: I just wish I could fix her. But I'm not a heart surgeon. But I-I could find a way... I did a cardiac rotation. I-I-I watched, I assisted. I can feel my fingers working. Small incision in the auxiliary vessel. A quick ligation of the ductus. A number eight silk... It's impossible. I don't have an operating theater and no nurses. And operating on an infant is...
Jamie Fraser: There is one thing we can do, Sassenach. I ken it may not be your first inclination, but I... I find it eases the mind.
Claire Fraser: Who are we praying to?
Jamie Fraser: St. Eligius. Patron of horsemen.
Claire Fraser: What does that got to do with a sick child?
Jamie Fraser: Hmm. Well, now, Sassenach, now, that is between me and the wee bairn. But, uh... I ken the saint will look after her... if we ask.

Lord William Ransom: I'm looking forward to engaging the enemy when the time comes.
Brianna Mackenzie: You know, a clever man once said, "The best way to defeat an enemy is to make him a friend."
Lord William Ransom: Have you had a lot of enemies?
Brianna Mackenzie: No. No, I-I just, uh...
Lord William Ransom: Sometimes the only way to settle things is with iron and blood.

Lord John Grey: We are, as you said, on opposing sides of history. Or at least, regrettably, on opposing sides of what I fear may be a lengthy conflict.
Jamie Fraser: Well, lengthy, perhaps. Regrettable, certainly.
Lord John Grey: In Parliament, they're saying that America is a son who has dishonored his father. And we must teach him a lesson.
Jamie Fraser: Well, there comes a time when every son must leave his father.

Brianna Mackenzie: They remind me of Disneyland.
Jamie Fraser: Aye? Where's that?
Brianna Mackenzie: It's this place where stories come to life. They say it's for children, but... really, it's for the child in everyone.

Jamie Fraser: What was it like there?
Brianna Mackenzie: Oh, it was magical. You'd hear music everywhere. Musicians playing horns and drums, marching up and down the streets... You could go up and shake hands with Mickey Mouse.
Jamie Fraser: What's that?
Brianna Mackenzie: It's this human-sized mouse with these big ears and gloves.
Jamie Fraser: What, a giant rat? They let the bairns play with it?
Brianna Mackenzie: No! It's not a rat. It's a mouse. But really, it's just a person dressed up like a mouse.

Brianna Mackenzie: When you're there, the real world disappears. Nothing bad can happen. They call it "the happiest place on Earth."

Jamie Fraser: For your sake, I will continue. Though for mine alone, I would not.

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A Life Well Lost

Outlander 7×1

Young Ian: Uncle Jamie?
Jamie Fraser: Let's go get my wife.

Sadie Ferguson: What ails you, Mistress?
Claire Fraser: I could not tell her what it was. Could not say that I knew just how long this war would last, that the courts would likely remain closed for years to come, and we would languish here without rescue.

Brianna Mackenzie: What do you even say to a preacher? "Break a leg" doesn't seem right. "God luck"?

Reverend McMillan: Could we offer you some comfort through the word of God? The future Reverend MacKenzie was at the Battle of Alamance.
Recruit: Doin' what, exactly? Carryin' the white flag of surrender? Bible verse ain't gonna help us. Knowin' how to wield a knife, use our fists, maybe. There's nothin' in your holy book about that. What advice can these devil-dodgers give us, eh?
Roger Mackenzie: ... "Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee." And God will surely go with thee.
Wendigo Donner: Ali.
Roger Mackenzie: What did you just say?
Wendigo Donner: Muhammad Ali.

Claire Fraser: Are you taking all of these tonics at once, Mrs. Martin?
Mrs. Martin: One at breakfast, another after luncheon. When the fever comes on, I use the East Indian Chaulmoogra.
Claire Fraser: Perhaps we can find you something more suitable...
Mrs. Martin: What if it's the tertian ague?
Claire Fraser: It's not.
Mrs. Martin: Shouldn't you be letting my blood? There's a fleam and bowl over there. Unless...

Jamie Fraser: Tom. Is that a whisky in yer hand?
Tom Christie: I have wrestled with my demons. But it's you. It's always you. You are the answer to my prayer.

Tom Christie: I have yearned always for love, given and returned. I've spent my life in the attempt to give my love to those who are not worthy of it. Allow me this... to give my life for the sake of one who is.

Richard Brown: You're a good man. A moral man.
Jamie Fraser: I'm also a violent man.

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I Am Not Alone

Outlander 6×8

Claire Fraser: It couldn't be, could it? The obituary said the Sabbath before the 21st of January. It's May, for heaven's sake.
Jamie Fraser: I was a printer, Claire. Ye canna trust everything ye read in the broadsheets.
Claire Fraser: That's reassuring.

Claire Fraser: The condemned ate a hearty meal...
Jamie Fraser: What?
Claire Fraser: It's an American tradition from my time. A prisoner condemned to death is allowed to request whatever he wants for his last meal.
Jamie Fraser: Whatever he wants?
Claire Fraser: Within reason.
Jamie Fraser: Hmm.

Jamie Fraser: I might say an Act of Contrition. We did that always the night before a battle. Just in case.
Claire Fraser: All right, then. Just in case.

Jamie Fraser: Oh, my God, I am heartily sorry for offending Thee. I detest all my sins for thy just punishments, but most of all, my God, because they offend Thee. My God who art all good and deserving of all my love.

Jamie Fraser: How many times, would you say, have I come close to dying?

Claire Fraser: You're a hard man to kill, I think... That brings me a great deal of comfort.

Claire Fraser: Do you think you have nine lives?
Jamie Fraser: I hope so.
Claire Fraser: I never thought that hearing a litany of your near-death experiences would bring me so much peace. Or maybe it's just the nearness of you.

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Sticks and Stones

Outlander 6×7

Jamie Fraser: The dead canna speak for themselves. It's the livin' we must watch.

Brianna Mackenzie: Where's Perry Mason when you need him, eh?
Roger Mackenzie: Aye, I know. Where do we start?
Brianna Mackenzie: It's not as if we can report it to police, or report this matter to anyone.
Young Ian: Who's Perry Mason?
Brianna Mackenzie: He's a lawyer from our time. He defends the falsely-accused.
Roger Mackenzie: I think the question he'd be asking is who would've had the means, motive, and the opportunity? Claire Fraser: Me.

Claire Fraser: Funny. We never say that we're "only human" when we've done something good or worthy of praise. Instead, it's what we tell ourselves to excuse our mistakes. An effort, perhaps, to convince ourselves that the person we see looking back at us in the mirror really isn't so bad. But who was I now? What was I now? Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp. Dr. Randall. Mistress Fraser. Wife. Mother. Grandmother. Witch. Murderer--

Roger Mackenzie: Probably sounds ridiculous to you, but in the future, there are some who are opposed to eatin' animals altogether.
Jamie Fraser: Aye, Claire told me. Vegetarians. Ye gonna tell me ye joined their ranks?

Roger Mackenzie: But "thou shalt not kill..."
Jamie Fraser: Does no good to quote "thou shalt not kill." In Greek and Hebrew scriptures, the word "murder" is used. Malva was murdered.
Roger Mackenzie: Makes me wonder where God is in all of this. And where I stand.

Jamie Fraser: As a wise man once told me, there's always a war comin'.

Claire Fraser: We're going to meet my prospective jurors. Stand trial in the court of public opinion.
Jamie Fraser: Well, that's what it is, opinion. I'll no dignify any rumors wi' a response. And what is it ye say to the bairns? "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names'll never hurt me."

Lizzie Wemyss: Please, Mr. Fraser. Are we goin' to do it here in the stables?
Jamie Fraser: Christ was born in a manger. It was good enough for Him.

Claire Fraser: Going to go get a cup of tea... What? Cup of tea makes everything right with the world. A truth acknowledged by every English person that's ever lived.
Jamie Fraser: Thank the Lord I'm Scottish.

Jamie Fraser: ... although there is pain, your selfishness has brought so much to so many. Without you, our whole world crumbles into dust.

Roger Mackenzie: It's an unholy trinity, certainly... What can I say? The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Jamie Fraser: I'll tell them that marriage is a serious undertaking. Requires patience, sacrifice...
Claire Fraser: Monogamy. Maybe they should've started with that.

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The World Turned Upside Down

Outlander 6×6

Jamie Fraser: I come from a long line of traitors, thieves, and bastards.

Claire Fraser: If I could take a sample of yours to look at under the microscope, well, then I'd know without a doubt whether...
Tom Christie: What kind of sample?
Claire Fraser: Well, it would be a-a small measure of, um... some fecal matter.
Tom Christie: Good Lord, woman! How dare you ask such a thing?
Claire Fraser: It's for medical purposes!
Tom Christie: Come outside. I will see you home. And if you insist upon asking such vile and intrusive questions, well, then I suppose I... I cannot stop you.

Jamie Fraser: You know, it's a great comfort to see the sun come up and go down. And when I dwelt in the cave, and then when I was in the prison, gave me hope, to see the light come and go, and know the world went about its business. I get the same feeling, Sassenach, when I hear you rustlin' about your surgery, rattling things or cursing to yourself. If you were no longer there... Or somewhere... Then the sun would no longer come up or go down.

Jamie Fraser: Your short hair is also... very arousin'.
Claire Fraser: Do you really think so?
Jamie Fraser: Aye. It is but one of the things that draws me to you.
Claire Fraser: What are the others?
Jamie Fraser: Well... Ye're brave. You were always bolder than was safe, and now you're as fierce as a badger, proud as Lucifer.
Claire Fraser: So I'm arrogant and ferocious. Well, that's hardly a catalogue of womanly virtues.
Jamie Fraser: Well, you're kind too and very clean. Although you're not much of a cook.

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Give Me Liberty

Outlander 6×5

Brianna Mackenzie: We need you.
Roger Mackenzie: Do ye? Ye're so capable. You're making waterwheels and clay pipes.
Brianna Mackenzie: It's nothing the Romans didn't do.
Roger Mackenzie: Ye're the only one here who knows how to do it. You're bringing indoor plumbing to the Ridge for crying out loud! Ye're amazing to me, Bree.

Flora MacDonald: What is ailing us today is the threat of division, and we've seen it before. We know the symptoms of this disease, and it's not enough for us just to put on a disguise and flee. Peace and unity, that is what is at stake. We have sworn oaths of loyalty to the Crown, and we are proud subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. And if we are to live in peace in this new land... so we must continue to be.

Jamie Fraser: 4th of July, 1776, you said... Well, there's still time.
Claire Fraser: That's the Declaration of Independence. The war starts much sooner.

Lord John Grey: So the rumors are true then? You are for independency.
Jamie Fraser: I must believe there's another way to live, a better way, perhaps.
Lord John Grey: Better? Better than what? If there is a war, the rebels will lose, and you... you may lose your life.
Jamie Fraser: Or gain my freedom. Our freedom.
Lord John Grey: Freedom? Freedom from what? From paying your taxes? From tyranny?

Jamie Fraser: I came here tonight because I believed I'd be among men who understood that, even if they disagreed, men who are not afraid to hear another man's opinion spoken because they prize that freedom and have faith it will serve the greater good in time. But maybe I was wrong to think so. Maybe there is no common decency.
Cornelius Harnett: Common decency, Mr. Fraser?
Jamie Fraser: Aye. If it truly is to be common to all men, it must begin with us. You call yourselves "Sons of Liberty"? Is it liberty when a man is cowed into silence or threatened into submission? Is it liberty if his property is taken from him?

Claire Fraser: So much change in the wind.
Jamie Fraser: When there's war afoot, Sassenach... men take to the roads.

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Hour of the Wolf

Outlander 6×4

Major MacDonald: You can tell your Chief Bird Who Sings in the Evening that these have been field-tested and aim true.
Jamie Fraser: I'll tell him they have yer personal guarantee.
Young Ian: Morning.
Major MacDonald: Sorry?
Young Ian: Chief Twiskwa Sunale Dekanogisgi... Chief Bird Who Sings in the Morning.
Major MacDonald: Why they won't take a Christian name is beyond me.
Young Ian: Aye. A simple name. Like Donald son of Donald.

Alexander 'Scotchee' Cameron: One dram becomes two... becomes three. What's after three?
Jamie Fraser: Twelve in yer case.

Jamie Fraser: I dinna have an answer. Only... At the end of life comes death. And after death... we come home to the Lord. How long the first shall last... we canna say.

Chief Bird Who Sings in the Morning: This wife you have... did you pay a great deal for her?
Jamie Fraser: She cost me almost everything I had. She was worth it.

Young Ian: I thought I had to choose who to be... Wolf's Brother or Ian Murray. I know now I can be both.
Jamie Fraser: I've been known by many names, lad. Call yerself whatever ye want. All that matters is who ye are here.

Jamie Fraser: I canna be two things at once, Claire... a rebel, a loyalist... agent for the Crown and an enemy of the king. It's pulling me apart. It's time to change horses.

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Temperance

Outlander 6×3

Claire Fraser: I thought just Highlanders were stubborn as rocks.
Tom Christie: Stubborn as rocks?
Claire Fraser: Mr. Christie is refusing to...
Tom Christie: Mistress Fraser insists...
Claire Fraser: God wants him to have the surgery, but the masochist is refusing the Ether.
Tom Christie: "Masochist"?
Claire Fraser: Well, it's a word for... people who prefer to suffer pain.

Jamie Fraser: ...if their parents think he's demon-born, I'm his grandsire, and ye're his granny, what does that say about us?

Tom Christie: Why do you never wear a proper kerch or cap?
Claire Fraser: Why should I?
Tom Christie: 'Cause every pious married woman should.
Claire Fraser: "And every woman who prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head. For that is just as if she were shaven." Are we back to Saint Paul again? Ever occur to you that man had quite the bee in his bonnet about women?

Claire Fraser: ... What changed your mind?
Tom Christie: Ardsmuir. You know, we had no books there, but Mr. Fraser was accustomed to recount the stories he had read to the other prisoners. ... And I saw that fiction was perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement of idleness and wicked fancy, a confection of lies.
Claire Fraser: Surely there's a difference between lying and telling a distracting tale.
Tom Christie: Oh, it was distraction, to be sure. In such conditions, distraction is, uh, not evil, while it is, of course, more desirable to escape into prayer.
Claire Fraser: Of course.
Tom Christie: But... it drew the men together. You would not think that such men... Crofters, Highlanders... would find themselves in sympathy with such situations. They were... they were starved, cold, covered in sores, separated from their families, yet they could take comfort in never having suffered such vicissitudes as had befallen these imaginary beings.

Jamie Fraser: Ye're the only one who can show yer son what a "useless" man like ye can achieve and how proud he can make his father. Ye dinna ken. But it's you, not what you do or... give or provide. It's you we need... to come home.
Fergus: I'm not who I once was, milord. I don't know if I can be that man again.
Jamie Fraser: You can. You will.

Claire Fraser: The Boston Tea Party...
Major MacDonald: Oh, so you've heard. An inconvenience, certainly. Imagine the King will view it as an act of outright aggression.

Jamie Fraser: What does it mean, Sassenach?
Claire Fraser: It's starting. The storm, the war... it's almost here.

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Allegiance

Outlander 6×2

Young Ian: What is it, Uncle?
Jamie Fraser: There is a woman in my bed.
Young Ian: There's... two of them, Uncle. And the other one's waiting her turn.

Jamie Fraser: Nice, was it? Actually...
Claire Fraser: I was trying to rank your words... "I like you," "I love you," "I worship you," "I must have my cock inside you"... In terms of the relative sincerity.
Jamie Fraser: Oh, I meant every word of it.
Claire Fraser: Especially the last one.
Jamie Fraser: Especially the last one.

Jamie Fraser: Well, sometimes we get a better idea of what's to come when we look at what's gone by.

Jamie Fraser: ... for those of us that have this knowledge of the future, it must inform our decisions.
Young Ian: Aye, Uncle Jamie.
Jamie Fraser: You have it now too. Take heed, it can be both a blessing and a curse.

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Echoes

Outlander 6×1

Jamie Fraser: We'll have no more of this senseless fighting. Catholics versus Protestants. We may not be stone masons, but we are, all of us, Scots. From now on, this prison will be a lodge, and we will be Freemasons, united by our belief in the Great Architect of the Universe. But any talk of politics or religion is forbidden. Who will join me?

Jamie Fraser: Well, that doesn't sound very good to me, Sassenach.
Claire Fraser: No? It's bloody marvelous.
Jamie Fraser: It would be a shame not to feel anything. ....
Claire Fraser: Shame we can't put everyone to sleep for 100 years but the two of us. And stop time. Wouldn't that be lovely?
Jamie Fraser: Mm.

Claire Fraser: You've been like my shadow ever since... Are you going to accompany me on every home visit from now to kingdom come?
Jamie Fraser: And long after that, Sassenach.

Roger Mackenzie: I'm something of a schoolmaster myself. Or was... once upon a time.

Brianna Mackenzie: Opening a bar?
Claire Fraser: Ha. I am distilling Ether for anesthetic.
Brianna Mackenzie: Hmm, pretty radical.
Claire Fraser: I prefer the term "revolutionary."
Brianna Mackenzie: Well, a lot of folk'll be using that term soon enough. Revolution of hearts and minds.

Jamie Fraser: Has anyone here built a cabin before?... Well, then, Mr. Christie, mebbe I should explain how we do things here.

Jamie Fraser: My land... my means.

Claire Fraser: I've never been afraid of ghosts. I live with them daily. When I look into a mirror, my mother's eyes look back at me. My mouth curls with the smile that lured my great-grandfather to the fate that was me...

Claire Fraser: All the time, ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future. Each ghost comes unbidden from the misty grounds of dreams and silence. Our rational minds say, "No, it isn't." But another part, an older part, echoes always softly in the dark, "Yes, but it could be." By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts. We haunt ourselves.

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Never My Love

Outlander 5×12

Wendigo Donner: Where did you come from before you settled here? Do you have clear night skies where you come from? I can't tell one star from another like some people can. The Moon... that's the same wherever you go. Looks like a man on the moon... staring back at us.

Wendigo Donner: Does the name Ringo Starr mean anything to you?

Wendigo Donner: I should've known what you were... Before Dr. Rawlings... Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ. You don't act afraid of men. Most of the women from now do. You ought to act more afraid.

Jamie: Checked on the turkey. Oh, it gets bigger every year, as does our family.

Jamie: First, I, uh... I want to thank you all for being here today. I'm grateful for my beautiful wife, blood of my blood, bone of my bone. My heart was yours since I first saw ye. Ye've held my soul in your two hands, kept it safe. Slàinte.

Jamie: I have lived through war and lost much. I know what's worth a fight and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone. And what a man will kill for, he'll sometimes die for, too. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone will I walk through fire again.

Claire: That post is crooked.
Jamie: Is that all? I'll mend it now.
Claire: No. We'll wait until tomorrow. Let's just enjoy this... ordinary day.

Claire: Oh, who knows how much longer we'll have this peace, knowing what's coming?
Jamie: Aye. Aye, the Revolution. The bravest are surely those with the clearest vision of what is before them... Glory, danger alike... Yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it... That was Thucydides who said that, not me.
Claire: Well, you'd know all about that, wouldn't you?
Jamie: Ah, it's only brave when there's a choice ye must make.
Claire: Well, we'll meet it the best we can.

Claire: I love you.
Jamie: When the day shall come that we do part... If my last words are not "I love you," ye ken it's because I didna have time.

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Journeycake

Outlander 5×11

Jamie: Peanuts?
Claire: Mm-hmm.
Jamie: Why? The pigs dinna want for slops. Or do you, uh, mean to make medicine out of them, Sassenach?
Claire: No, sandwiches. Haven't quite mastered ice cream yet, but I'll be damned if Jemmy grows up without tasting peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Jamie: Thou goest home this night to thy home of autumn, and of spring and of summer. Thou goest home this night to thy perpetual home, to thine eternal bed. To thine eternal slumber.

Otter Tooth: "These people do not measure time by any scale I know, nor do I have the tongue to find out. But I know I am too late."

Jamie: Hm... Very tasty, but, um... are you sure it's to be eaten? Ye could seal letters or mend your boots wi' it as well.

Jamie: To home. To family. Slàinte mhath.

Voltaire says the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Jamie: I'm sure Voltaire never dug a privy in his life.

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Mercy Shall Follow Me

Outlander 5×10

Brianna: When was the hypodermic needle invented, again?
Claire: Not for a while yet. I really need one. You've seen your father. He has a knack for almost getting himself killed every time he gets out of bed. I swear that man is like a cat. Got nine lives, if not more.

Brianna: I love reading... putting yourself in other people's shoes... living with characters, learning what drives them. Usually it's love, money... revenge.

Stephen Bonnet: There are two sides to every story. You don't know mine. If I were to tell Jeremiah my story... our story... Will he... feel for me?
Brianna: You can't make someone love you.
Stephen Bonnet: Well, I've heard the expression "learn to love."

Stephen Bonnet: What happens in the end? Does he get the whale? ... I really hope that Ahab slaughters the whale and gets his revenge.
Brianna: Moby Dick capsizes Ahab's boat, destroys the ship, and Ahab is dragged under the sea.
Stephen Bonnet: What, the monster prevails? And Ahab is... drowned, then?
Brianna: Well, that depends on which one you think is the monster... The man hell-bent on revenge or the whale who's hunted.

Brianna: The sea is a treacherous place... where creatures prey upon one another. And the sea herself is... hungry for souls.
Stephen Bonnet: What does that mean?
Brianna: A nightmare.
Stephen Bonnet: The sea, uh... It comes for me. Darkness closes in. I cannot move. No one comes. No one ever comes.
Brianna: It's only a dream.
Stephen Bonnet: So you don't think any less of me for telling you?
Brianna: No. I could never think any less of you.

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Monsters and Heroes

Outlander 5×9

Claire: I had to be determined. No one was going to open the door for me. But if you're lucky enough to know what it is that you're meant to be...
Brianna: What if you don't know? Or if you do know, but you just can't do it?
Claire: Well, for most people... life as they find it is often the life they lead.

Brianna: And what about Da? Does he know what he is?
Claire: Oh, he knows.
Brianna: A laird? Is that what you call him? Is he content with that?
Claire: A laird, a husband, father... Those are no small things to be.

Roger: Ye're not going to die. We both read that obituary.
Jamie: Aye, I'm to burn in a fire, but... I feel I'm... I'm burning up as we speak, Roger Mac.

Jamie: There's a fine line between a monster and a hero...

Fergus: You know... Marsali and I try not to think about what we lack but about what we have. You and I have a father and an uncle. We should be there for him when he needs us. That's all we can do.

Claire: So why did you choose to stay?
Jamie: 'Cause ye need me.
Claire: But not because you love me?
Jamie: Whether I'm dead... or you... Whether we're together or apart... I will always love you.

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Famous Last Words

Outlander 5×8

Roger: I wanted you to really think about why people say what they say and perhaps to consider what your own final words might be, given the chance.
Morgan: What does it matter, sir? This is history, not creative writing.
Roger: Because people live and die by their words. They shape our thoughts and deeds. Often, they define us. Like bullets, once fired, well, we can't take 'em back. They have impact, so choose them wisely. Make them meaningful. Live a life worthy of them... especially your last words. They outlive us.
Jones: And what will yours be, sir?
Roger: It is my dying wish, O Lord... that my students write structured arguments... Supported by evidence and legible handwriting, amen.
Jones: No, really, sir.
Roger: I'd say... I'd say let history forget my name... So long as my words and my deeds are remembered by those I love.

Brianna: You really should try to speak, Roger. It'll sound croaky at first, but it's perfectly normal. Maybe just try to whisper.... All right, well... just know that I'll be teaching Jem to say "sweater" and "aluminum." It's not gonna be "jumper" or "aluminium."

Jocasta: How careful we'd be if we kent which good-byes were our last.

Jamie: Been a difficult few months. Is there a medicine for grief in your time? Some of yer wee invisible beasties to gnaw away at it?
Claire: Unfortunately not. I don't think there'll ever be a cure for that. Except maybe time. Well, they say time heals all wounds.

Roger: Everybody wants the old Roger back. But I'll never be that man again. I studied history. I taught it. Now I'm living it.

Roger: I have changed. Remember when you asked me about my last words?.. I thought I knew what they'd be. What mattered was the last face I saw. That face was yours.

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