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OUTLANDER (2014 – 2026) S03E08 | S08E10

Music video I made.

Turning page by sleeping at last

Lyrics

I've waited a hundred years

But I'd wait a million more for you

Nothing prepared me for

What the privilege of being yours would do

If I had only felt the warmth within your touch

If I had only seen how you smile when you blush

Or how you curl your lip when you concentrate enough

I would have known what I was living for all along

What I've been living for

Your love is my turning page

Where only the sweetest words remain

Every kiss is a cursive line

Every touch is a redefining phrase

I surrender who I've been for who you are

For nothing makes me stronger than your fragile heart

If I had only felt how it feels to be yours

Well, I would have known what I've been living for all along

What I've been living for

Though we're tethered to the story we must tell

When I saw you, well I knew we'd tell it well

With a whisper, we will tame the vicious seas

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OUTLANDER (2026) 03 810 Dragonfly in Amber

The morning of the Kings Mountain Battle, Claire did not want to leave the bed. When she sighed and said, "Here we are…" his mind unexpectedly jumped to a sentence in the final part of another book Brianna had given him, a fiction he'd read, THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Here we are, at the end of all things. But they could pretend this was like any other morning, watching the sun rise. "Life on the Ridge will go on without us," Claire said, and it was the truth. They could hold this moment in time, like the wedding gift Claire once received from Hugh Munro, an insect suspended in a block of resinous amber. She was also telling the bees a lot of things he wanted to hear, but he would rather be in the here and now with his wife. Claire told him what the bees had been doing. Two bees were holding each other's feet while sleeping in a flower. He agreed it was sweet. It reminded him of a poem bit by William Butler Yeats:

Nine bean rows will I have there And a hive for the honey-bee And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

Isn't that what Claire wanted? A quiet country life with bees? Not alone, she said, and kissed him. "I don't think the quiet life was ever meant for us."

Jamie thought about the many times he'd been a madman where Claire was concerned. "I've lived longer than I thought I would. I have lived to see my grandchildren," he smiled, because they brought him great joy. "Not a blessing everyone receives." He so wanted to meet William's eventual wife and see his children. Perhaps Bree would have more bairns. He thought Heaven should allow him to know how his family is getting on, that God would let him have a wee look in.

"Being a ghost, may be quite interesting." He would love to haunt a few folk. A wee glance at Claire, because he wouldn't want to frighten her. Claire wondered about her parents, who she lost at an early age and never had a proper home because she traveled so much with her uncle Lam. She said she'd never lived long enough in one place to even have owned a common household vase. She'd seen one when she arrived in Scotland for the first time, but didn't buy it because the next morning she went to Craigh na Dun looking for forget-me-not flowers.

Jamie asked if Claire regretted finding the flowers and touching the stone. "Never. I have everything I never knew I wanted."

The rest was their history.

The only thing Jamie still wanted was to sleep in a flower while holding Claire's feet, he joked.

OUTLANDER (2026) 04 810 Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

The last time Jamie had a serious conversation with Brianna, he told her what her father had written in The Book, and she had begged him not to go to Kings Mountain. Just stay home, she'd said. He saw her on the porch when he came down that morning, gave her back The Book. "I leave it and the Ridge in your hands, lass." She hoped it was of help. "Frank gave me a gift even greater than his book. He raised you, helped make you who you are" Jamie simply told her. "No matter how the story ends, it will all have been worth it." He smiled at her and told Bree how much she looked like her mother. Not in appearance, but in mannerisms.

"Ye look like yer mother in love. Exactly like her." "I love you, Da," she said tearfully. "And I, you."

Since he wasn't sure if he'd be back later, or ever, after watching Claire with them and all she had said, Jamie decided it was time for him to formally address the bees at their hives.

"Good day to you. I'd talk to ye about the weather and the like, but everyone will be waiting for me. So, I wanted to ask you, if she comes to you, tells you I'm gone, ye'll feed her? Take heed for her? I trust ye wi' her."

That sounded pretty good. But there was one more thing.

"I, uh, remember a bit more of that poem now."

And I shall have some peace For peace comes Dropping slow.

With that, Jamie put on his hat and went to join the war party.

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There will never be a love story like theirs again. Never.

I thought maybe the M&S fan had a filter on, but the culture weekend photos also look the same.

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She remembered the day her mark appeared with stunning clarity. At fourteen, most everyone she knew had already gotten their marks… unless, of course, you simply never got them, because your soulmate didn’t exist. Uncle Lamb, for instance, was happily married to his work, but as more and more of Claire’s peers discovered their mark to identify their soulmate, the thought of her own never coming in had made her skin prickle. Of course Uncle Lamb seemed untroubled by his lack of a mark, but Claire often wondered what choice you had if a mark never showed. Some secret part of her yearned to know she had someone out there. That she wasn’t truly as alone in the world as she felt. And she wondered if maybe Uncle Lamb ever felt that way too, even just a little. Maybe the soulmate-less weren’t ever spared from that haunting thought.

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