Scotland Quotes
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"I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem."
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."
"I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looking at me with eyes gone soft and dark. "Christ, Claire, ye were so beautiful, there on the stair, wi' your hair down and the shadow of your body with the light behind ye…." He shook his head slowly. "I did think I should die, if I didna have ye," he said softly. "Just then."
"There was something more than a little satisfying about ripping the heart out of someone the moment before they expected to do the same to you."
"Still pleasant as a cornered hedgehog, and as well mannered as a badger, I see."
"It washed all over me and through me, into the floor and then it was gone. I never cried for my Da again after that, and God's presence has been with me ever since.” - Adien MacRae, BETWEEN"
"Samantha imagined that in another life, she and Alison could have, indeed, been friends. Had she not been about to rob the train."
"For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)"
"More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest to our Creator, who, for all our murderous efforts, most likely despises the lot of us."
"People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go."
"Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush."
Laurence Overmire, The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland
"We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland."
"News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old girl, the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. Scotland would be subject to yet another weakening regency—it had endured six during the past 150 years—and should give no further trouble."
"I suppose there are some advantages to this place,' he admitted. 'I bet it's fucking raining in Stirling."
"Aye, it could', Ian added. 'It's many a time when I've walked alone on the misty moors of Scotland, the fog creeping in, the waves pounding against the shore, and then the lone, eerie call of a dead chicken. Caaa-cluck. Caaa-cluck"
"Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us?"
"Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies."
"In the letters section, a Scot reminds his readers of the ‘Glorious Alliance’ between France and Mary Queen of Scots, which explains why Scotland should not share the rabid Europhobia of Englishmen."
Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
"there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures."
"The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible."
"God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned."
Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
"I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless."
Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
"I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am."
Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
"My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up."
Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
"Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride."
Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
"Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature’s kiss was instantly replaced by the warmth stealing through my veins, as if my missing blood were being replenished and contrived to heal me. I craved to keep kissing the beast. My entire being awakened to that kiss feeding me ecstasy, feeding me life."
Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
"The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness."
"Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive."
"When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness..."
"The day I let all that fear and worry consume me was the day it all changed. I slipped off that bridge and fell into the void I’d always dreamt about. The thing was, that was also that day I started to live."
"I’m not broken. Not really,” I sighed. “My name is Novaleigh. Novaleigh Darrow."
"Trust and faith have left you.” “He will help guide you back to them.” “Blessings to you on your journey."
"Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland."
Laurence Overmire, The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland
"Funny how I keep forgetting you’re insane.” - Colleen O’Brien"
"Identify yourself,” Colleen demanded. “I’ve got a bat and I will beat the living shit out of you if you so much as blink. I’ve got a black belt,” she lied frantically, “and…and…a gun. A big one.” - Colleen O’Brien"
"Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre"
"Submitted for your approval--the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and thegorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” – Rod Serling"
"Och, lass. Yer going to have to not do that.” Faolán exhaled. “Creeping up on a man is a dangerous thing, and I confess I’m jumpier than most. Yer feet are soft as a cat’s.”“I wasn’t creeping anywhere, I was going to make coffee and this is my house, I’ll creep anywhere I like,” Colleen muttered with a petulant scowl. “But I wasn’t creeping."
"Refusing to lean back against him, Colleen sat ramrod straight until they reached the road. “I guess I should say thank you for saving my life,” she muttered then turned and slapped Faolán hard across the face. “And that’s for you having to save it in the first place. And I’m not your woman, you big, arrogant, lying, betraying…faery loving…” She searched for the perfect insult and couldn’t find one, “…Scot.” She gave a very unladylike snort. “Happy now? That fiery enough for you?"
"But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul."
"After a taste of a Scot, you'll never look elsewhere again."A brunette smiled seductively, "That's quite a boast.""I'm quite a man."
"She leaned a shoulder against the tunnel wall and thought of Kellan. A Dragon King. A dragon and a King.A gorgeous man who kissed as if there were no tomorrow and made love skillfully, adeptly. He could have let her die. Instead, he took her on a journey that opened her eyes to an entirely new world both beautiful and frightening."
"His mouth descended on hers in a fierce kiss.He seized, he captured.He dominated.And she loved every second of it."
"He said that if I ever hurt you, he'd find me and kill me. I told him that if I ever hurt you, I'd want him to." - Aiden MacRae"
"I'm not one to let such a striking man pass without looking my fill."
"Listen to the earth, Feel the fire. Allow the power to flow through ye."
"Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING"
"For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure."
"My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there."
"Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you."
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