requested by @dnstevens

AU: Claire stays and Bree grows up at Lallybroch

from both the 1st book + season 1 of the show!

• “people disappear all the time.”
• “for where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary.”
• “don’t be afraid. there’s the two of us now.”
• “i can bear pain myself, but i could not bear yours. that would take more strength than i have.”
• “does it bother you that im not a virgin?”
• “you’re tearing my guts out, ______.”
• “where did you learn to kiss like that?”
• “a hedgehog? and just how does a hedgehog make love?”
• “sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.”
• “and if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?”
• “that’s what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things you’d otherwise have to confess.”
• “who in god’s name is ______?”
• “boldness in battle is nothing out of the way… but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.”
• “haven’t you ever seen a naked woman before?”
• “what does ‘fucking’ mean?”
• “getting up once in the dark to go adventuring is a lark. twice in two days smacks of masochism.”
• “i didn’t tell you because i didn’t want to lose you too.”
• “i wish i could have fought ______ for you.”
• “it wasn’t your fight — it was mine.”
• “i can’t bloody do without you, ______, and that’s all about it.”
• “ill thank you to take your hands off my ______.”
• “if you ever lay a hand on me again, ill cut out your heart and fry it for breakfast!”
• “i won’t have you dying for nothing.” 
• “you’re the regular bob hope.“ 
• "i said i was a virgin, not a monk." 
• "i won’t surrender. to you, or any man." 
• "well, if you’re going to hell… i might as well go, too. god knows you’ll never manage alone." 
• "chickens are very poor company." 
• "it doesn’t matter where you come from. you’re here." 
• "i wake up every day, and i find that i love you more than i did the day before." 
• "i’m not the meek and obedient type." 
• "you don’t look that heavy. if you won’t walk, i shall pick you up and throw you over my shoulder!" 
• "because i wanted you. more than i ever wanted anything in my life.”

LINES AND DIALOGUE TAKEN FROM THE 1996 FILM ‘THE ENGLISH PATIENT’ – FEEL FREE TO CHANGE PRONOUNS OR REARRANGE HOWEVER YOU LIKE.

• My Darling, I’m waiting for you. How long is the day in the dark?
• We die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we’ve entered and swum up like rivers.
• I want all this marked on my body.
• I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything.
• Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.
• Of course, you idiot. I’ve always loved you.
• Betrayals in war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.
• New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire.
• Will we be alright?
• ‘Yes’ is a comfort. ‘Absolutely’ is not.
• You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.
• I just wanted you to know: I’m not missing you yet.
• Promise me you’ll come back for me.
• I promise, I’ll come back for you. I promise, I’ll never leave you.
• There is no God, but I hope someone watches over you.
• Why are people always so happy when they collide with someone from the same place?
• How can you ever smile, as if your life hadn’t capsized?
• This… this, the hollow at the base of a woman’s throat, does it have an official name?
• Good God, man, pull yourself together.
• What do you love?
• What do I love?
• What do you hate most?
• When you leave, you should forget me.
• Could I have a cigarette?
• Why… why are you so determined to keep me alive?
• When were you most happy?
• When were you least happy?
• I hate being owned.
• Stop it! Stop it! You’re always beating me!
• Bastard! You bastard, I believed you!
• I am just a bit of toast, my friend.
• A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she shouldn’t admit to it.
• Do you think you are the only one who feels anything?
• You’re in love with him, aren’t you?
• You think he’s a saint because of the way he looks? I don’t think he is.
• I’m not in love with him. I’m in love with ghosts.
• Swoon, I’ll catch you.
• I’m sick of this room. I’m sick of this heat! And I’m sick of this damn telephone!
• I must be a curse. Anybody who loves me, anybody who gets close to me… or I must be cursed. Which is it?
• Why did you follow me yesterday?
• Escort me, by all means, but following me is predatory, isn’t it?
• I fear _____ knows about us, they keep mentioning Anna Karenina.
• Will you please come in?
• I believe you still have my book.
• Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he’s killed.
• And what if he really is a spy?
• If anything happened to you I’d never forgive myself.
• We planned badly.
• I apologize if I appear abrupt. I am rusty at social graces.
• I can still taste you. I try to write with your taste in my mouth.
• I long for the rain on my face.
• I’m not agreeing. Don’t think I’m agreeing, because I’m not.
• _____? My God, _____ what are you doing here?
• No! I was never a spy.
• I have come to love that little tap of the fingernail against the syringe. Tap… Tap… Tap.
• It wouldn’t be make believe if you believed in me.
• Read to me will you? Read me to sleep.
• And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation?
• Am I a terrible coward to ask how much water we have?
• This a different world is what I tell myself; a different life.
• I can’t do this anymore.
• Why did you hate me?
• Don’t you know you drove everybody mad?
• There was a result to what you did!
• This is what I do. I do this every day.
• Why are you people so threatened by a woman?
• It’s ghastly. It’s a witch hunt. Anyone remotely foreign is suddenly a spy.
• How do you explain… to someone who’s never been here… feelings that seem quite natural?
• You get to the morning and the poison leaks away, doesn’t it?
• I thought I would kill you.
• You can’t kill me. I died years ago.
• No, I can’t kill you now.
• I’ll probably marry him.
• My mother always told me I would summon my husband by playing the piano.
• Then I tell myself you spend all day searching, in the night you want to be found.
• I do. I do want you to find me! I do want to be found.
• And the marriage….is that a fiction?
• You should be my slave.
• I claim this shoulder blade. No, wait…I want - Turn over ; I want this…this place. I love this place. What’s it called? This is mine.
• I thought you were against ownership?
• I could stay tonight.
• She died because of me, because I loved her. Because I – because I had the wrong name.

You are my home.

Roger, if she’s gone, there won’t be a soul left in the world who cares what I’m like, or thinks I’m special not because of anything, but just because I’m me! She’s the only person in the world who really, really cares I was born, and if she’s gone…