“Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.”

“I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.”

“......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.”

“While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.”

“Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?”

“For I had come back, and I dreamed once more in the cool air of the Highlands. And the voice of my dream still echoed through ears and heart, repeated with the sound of Brianna's sleeping breath. "You are mine," it had said. "Mine. And I will not let you go.”

“Time makes very little difference to the basic realities of life”