The Most Popular Passages from the Outlander Book Series

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Voyager

Claire and Jamie are reunited, and it feels so good. Voyager is an action packed book that keeps you on your toes and maybe a little seasick. Diana Gabaldon seamlessly explains the twenty-year absence between Jamie and Claire and how they are back together again. Not that fans don’t get bogged down on the how’s and why when it comes to Claire and Jamie, but you can tell she has put a lot of thought into it. Of course, wherever a Fraser is, trouble is soon to follow. This time we get trouble in the form of pirates, British Navy and an old villain we once thought long gone. While my favorite quotes from Voyager didn’t make the list, but many of Claire’s passages did.

"“There are things ye maybe canna tell me, he had said. I willna ask ye, or force ye. But when ye do tell me something, let it be the truth. There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think—but not for lies” (595). “’Faith is as powerful a force as science,” he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, “—but far more dangerous’” (972). “’Only you,” he said, so softly I could barely hear him. “To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie—and yet ye love me’” (899). “’I have noticed,” she said slowly, “that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is—in the blink of an eye, the mother can see the child again as it was when it was born, when it learned to walk, as it was at any age—at any time, even when the child is fully grown and a parent itself’” (598). “’Well, I say it is the place of science only to observe,” he said. “To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not because it does not exist, but because we know too little to find it. It is not the place of science to insist on explanation—but only to observe, in hopes that the explanation will manifest itself’” (972). “’Post coitum omne animalium triste est,” I remarked, with my eyes closed’” (381). “There is a great difference between those phenomena which are accepted on faith, and those which are proved by objective determination, though the cause of both may be equally ‘rational’ once known. And the chief difference is this: that people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced” (972). “It’s only when ye ken ye can say no that it takes courage” (838). “It isn’t necessarily easier if you know what it is you’re meant to do—but at least you don’t waste time in questioning or doubting. If you’re honest—well, that isn’t necessarily easier, either. Though I suppose if you’re honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you’re less likely to feel that you’ve wasted your life, doing the wrong thing” (107). “Know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love” (635)."