The Most Popular Passages from the Outlander Book Series

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A Breath of Snow and Ashes

A Breath and Snow and Ashes is the six novel in the Outlander series and clocks in at whopping 1443 pages. Most could it was 500 pages too long. Civil unrest in the colonies is getting worse and is getting closer to the isolated Fraser’s Ridge. Just when Jamie Fraser thinks he’s far enough away from politics, he’s drag back in with the impending American Revolution. Due to Jamie oath, to the British crown after the Jacobite rising, he must not take arms against the Redcoats. Claire skills as a healer are getting stronger but are also getting so unwanted attention from those who want to paint as a witch and murderess. With all the civil unrest in the colonies, Claire and Jamie send Makenzie, family through the American standing stones back to the 20th century. The sixth book might be the most somber out of the entire Gabaldon series, and it’s in due to so much uncertainty. We are on the precipice of a massive shift in the country and the Frasers are damned either way it falls. All is not lost for this heavy tome; it does give us some great moments with our significantly older Claire and Jamie.

"“’All I want,” she said softly to the dark, “is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you—just because I am'” (Chapter 52, Kindle Loc 12378). “There is no more perfect stillness than the solitude in the heart of a snowstorm” (Chapter 38, Kindle Loc 9367). “A Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases” (Chapter 17, Kindle Loc 3069). “’If I die,” he whispered in the dark, “dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait'” (Chapter 7, Kindle Loc 1691). “’I have yearned always,” he said softly, “for love given and returned; have spent my life in the attempt to give my love to those who were not worthy of it. Allow me this: to give my life for the sake of one who is'” (Chapter 97, Kindle Loc 22757). “And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil” (Chapter Prologue, Kindle Loc 96). “Lavender and rosemary should be cut in the morning, though, when the volatile oils had risen with the sun; it wasn’t as potent if taken later in the day” (Chapter 45, Kindle Loc 10818). “My turn today—yours tomorrow. Thus passes the glory of the world” (Chapter 2, Kindle Loc 357). “’O Lord, bless the blood and the flesh of this the creature that You gave me'” (Chapter 71, Kindle Loc 17592). “Real danger had its own taste, vivid as lemon juice, by contrast with the weak lemonade of imagination” (Chapter 6, Kindle Loc 997)."