All rights reserved.)ģ) Ian was the only person other than Claire who knew what Jack Randall had done to Jamie at Wentworth. (From AN ECHO IN THE BONE by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 81, "Purgatory II". He’d handed the knife to Jamie, who’d cut himself, surprised that it hurt so much, and then they’d pressed their thumbs together and sworn to be brothers always. “I’ll be your brother,” he’d said, matter-of-fact, and cut across his thumb, hissing a little through his teeth.
Ian had sat thinking for a bit, then reached into his sporran and got out the wee knife his father had given him on his last birthday. He’d cherished that pain for a little, a flimsy shield against the enormity of knowing his mother gone forever. It’s just Jenny and me, still.” In the years since, he’d succeeded in forgetting that small pain, the loss of his hoped-for brother, the boy who might have given him back a little of his love for his older brother, Willie, dead of the smallpox. "I thought I’d have a new brother,” he’d said suddenly. All rights reserved.)Ģ) Jamie and Ian, age eight or so, the day after Jamie's mother died in childbirth: (From OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 29, "More Honesty". “Trust a Murray to keep score,” Jamie said, shaking his head. “Oh, weel,” Ian said comfortably, “that was when ye broke my nose the second time, so we were even.” “I had a wicked gash over my ear, where ye hit me wi’ the broom.”
“And you tried to kill me on the third day,” said Jamie, “for getting us into that.” He touched his head gingerly. It took five days, and I can taste rotted oat-straw when I cough, even now.” “We swept it from the top to the bottom,” he said, “and scrubbed it from the bottom to the top. “That tower rises sixty feet from the ground,” he told me, “and it’s thirty feet in diameter, wi’ three floors.” He heaved a sigh. Ian’s eyes rolled slowly up, as though following the rough stones of the broch upward. “Said I’d convinced him of my point, so he’d decided on a more ‘constructive’ form of punishment.” " gave us each a broom, a brush, and a bucket, and pointed us in the direction of the broch,” said Jamie, taking up the story. While we wait for "Virgins", I thought it might be fun to share some of my favorite quotes from the OUTLANDER books about Jamie and Ian's relationship.ġ) Reminiscing about childhood punishments: Diana Gabaldon's latest story, "Virgins", about Jamie and Ian as very young mercenaries in France, before Jamie met Claire, will be published in the DANGEROUS WOMEN anthology on Tuesday, December 3.
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