The Most Popular Passages from the Outlander Book Series

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An Echo in the Bone

In the book An Echo in the Bone, we find Brianna, Roger, Jem, and Mandy are now safely back in the 20th Century Scotland, having time traveled through the stones in North America. As the McKenzies settle in at the familial home in Lallybroch, danger is never too far away. A group of people find out the McKenzies time traveling abilities and want to exploit it. This leads to a kidnapping and some more time travel. Back at Fraser’s Ridge, Jamie and Claire are being dragged into a war they want no part of but must prepare for. Jamie’s only son, William Ransom, Ninth Earl of Ellesmere is becoming more involved with the American Revolution. Claire, Jamie, and Ian make it back to Scotland briefly before having to go back to America the upcoming Revolutionary War. Jamie’s worst fears are realized when he ends up fighting opposite his son during a battle and William finding out his true parentage.

"“I’ve heard it said that a man’s reach must exceed his grasp—or what’s a heaven for” (Chapter 64, Kindle Loc 13836). “All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death the key to the gate that bars memory” (Chapter 84, Kindle Loc 17375). “It was possible to leave things behind—places, people, memories—at least for a time. But places held tight to the things that had happened in them, and to come again to a place you had once lived was to be brought face-to-face with what you had done there and who you had been” (Chapter 78, Kindle Loc 16374). “’Catholics don’t believe in divorce,” Bree had informed him once. “We do believe in murder. There’s always Confession, after all'” (Chapter 16, Kindle Loc 3561). “Do women hold back the evolution of such things as freedom and other social ideals, out of fear for themselves or their children? Or do they in fact inspire such things—and the risks required to reach them—by providing the things worth fighting for? Not merely fighting to defend, either, but to propel forward, for a man wanted more for his children than he would ever have” (Chapter 60, Kindle Loc 12897). “Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in” (Chapter 9, Kindle Loc 2387). “Like forgiveness, it was not a thing once learned and then comfortably put aside but a matter of constant practice—to accept the notion of one’s own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates” (Chapter 94, Kindle Loc 18863). “I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which He has placed me” (Chapter 7, Kindle Loc 1902). “’They’re girls,” she replied briefly. “They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance'” (Chapter 17, Kindle Loc 4007). “A man’s life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day” (Chapter 60, Kindle Loc 12907)."