The Most Popular Passages from the Outlander Book Series

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Outlander

This is the book that started it all. It’s the book that gave us Claire, Jamie, and the 1740’s Scottish Highlands. Diana Gabaldon wrote Outlander as an experiment to see if she could even write a novel. Outlander was originally a romance novel because the publisher didn’t know what else to do with it, but this book isn’t your ordinary run of the mill romance novel. It doesn’t follow any typical romance formula and has a lot of action suspense and a dash a science fiction. See, it really doesn’t fit neatly into just any one category. Thankfully for us fans, Gabaldon hasn’t stopped writing this incredible series, and we can’t stop reading it. For most fans, Outlander is their favorite book in the series.

"“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough” (710). “Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes” (27). “Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone. I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, ’til our Life shall be Done” (247). “We have nothing now between us, save—respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies” (252). “To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct. And I feared I did not have it, and fearing, was ashamed” (160). “As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary” (705). “It starts out the same, but then, after a moment,” he said, speaking softly, “suddenly it’s as though I’ve a living flame in my arms.” His touch grew firmer, outlining my lips and caressing the line of my jaw. “And I want only to throw myself into it and be consumed” (294). “Without one word of direct explanation or apology, he had given me the message he intended. I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy, too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear” (373). “Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred, and a Thousand more” (328). “He told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it’s his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I’d no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions” (544)."