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“Innes had compared the island to a fishbowl once. He said you had to learn to live with your disappointments and your shames because if you thought you had left them behind, you would only swim back around and be hurt all over again. John had argued this wasn’t accurate, because he could never put his failures out of mind and at least in a fishbowl you could look outwards. This, he said, was rats in a bucket.”

“Do you realise that there are twenty-seven different colors in your jumper?”

“Are there?” she said, tugging the Fairisle.

“Yes,” he said. “There are.”



Why is this exchange making me cry. 😭

“As the crowd paired up for the night, they had been shoved along the bench towards each other, in the same way her mother paired socks, until all that was left were the odd ones.”

“The thu air an t-side mhath a thoirt leat,” he said. You’ve brought the fine weather.”