Cora said that the weather you are born in is yours, all your life—your own weather. You will shine brightest in snowstorms she told me. Oh yes… I believed her—for she was born in thunder, and was always stormy-eyed.
“I think that maybe in our lives—in our scrabbling for food”
― The Highland Witch
― The Highland Witch
“I sought the sea. There was a small comfort in it—in how it never ended”
― The Highland Witch
― The Highland Witch
“Yet that was one of the greatest secrets of Rome”
― The Wall
― The Wall
“If you stake your life on a roll of the dice”
― The Wall
― The Wall
“Scotland is two countries. I pricked my thumb. Two? Scotland? Two? England says one. But England’s wrong about that. Highland and Lowland”
― The Highland Witch
― The Highland Witch
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