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Book cover for The Highland Witch
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.
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“I think that maybe in our lives—in our scrabbling for food”
Susan Fletcher, The Highland Witch

“I sought the sea. There was a small comfort in it—in how it never ended”
Susan Fletcher, The Highland Witch

Adrian Goldsworthy
“Yet that was one of the greatest secrets of Rome”
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Adrian Goldsworthy
“If you stake your life on a roll of the dice”
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“Scotland is two countries. I pricked my thumb. Two? Scotland? Two? England says one. But England’s wrong about that. Highland and Lowland”
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