The Most Popular Passages from the Outlander Book Series

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The Fiery Cross

This book was a beast of a book to finish. Gabaldon goes into great detail on mundane happenings on their homestead on Fraser’s Ridge. We also get to fast forward in time about a year, and Claire and Jamie are adjusting to the new family dynamics on the ridge. Brianna and Roger are finally married, but the upcoming American Revolutionary War is looming. For a warrior like Jamie, this means picking a side, and for all the rest of the members of Fraser’s Ridge, it requires sacrifice. As much as Claire would love for Jamie to stay out of the war, she knows it’s not possible. This time Claire will fight along with Jamie. Roger, on the other hand, is having a hard time finding his footing becoming a husband, father and the expectations of his father-in-law. Claire and Jamie might be favorite Outlander couple, but Brianna and Roger really grow on you in this book.

"“’When the day shall come, that we do part,” he said softly, and turned to look at me, “if my last words are not ‘I love you’—ye’ll ken it was because I didna have time’” (Chapter 111, Kindle Loc 26455). “The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it” (Chapter 111, Kindle Loc 26414). “’To see the years touch ye gives me joy, Sassenach,” he whispered, “—for it means that ye live’” (Chapter 85, Kindle Loc 19912). “The past is gone—the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I” (Chapter 35, Kindle Loc 10334). “May God make safe to me each step, May God make open to me each pass, May God make clear to me each road, And may He take me in the clasp of His own two hands” (Chapter 18, Kindle Loc 4690). “Everyone makes choices, and no one knows what may be the end of any of them. If my own was to blame for many things, it was not to blame for everything. Nor was harm all that had come of it” (Chapter 32, Kindle Loc 9633). “He was not afraid to die with her, by fire or any other way—only to live without her” (Chapter 17, Kindle Loc 4597). “Help us, O Lord, to remember how often men do wrong through want of thought, rather than from lack of love; and how cunning are the snares that trip our feet” (Chapter 62, Kindle Loc 15743). “’He’s a man,” she said, “and that’s no small thing to be’” (Chapter 78, Kindle Loc 18474). “I am a warrior, that my son may be a merchant-and his son may be a poet” (Chapter 24, Kindle Loc 6830)."