Scotland Quotes

“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.”
― Donna Grant, Darkest Flame: Part 3

“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.”
― Donna Grant, Darkest Flame: Part 4

“She drank in the sight of him, the power, the virility, the sheer sexiness. She knew just how well those lips of his kissed, how gentle and coaxing his hands could be, and how mouth-watering his body was.”
― Donna Grant, Darkest Flame: Part 4

“His mouth descended on hers in a fierce kiss.
He seized, he captured.
He dominated.
And she loved every second of it.”
― Donna Grant, Darkest Flame: Part 4

“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, -- unique, lovable, sublime; the peerless orator of all time, and as true a poet as Nature ever held in tender clasp upon her loving breast, and, in words coined for the chosen few, told of the joys and sorrows, hopes, dreams, and fears of universal life; a patriot whose golden words and deathless deeds were worthy of the Great Republic; a philanthropist, real and genuine; a philosopher whose central theme was human love, -- who placed 'the holy hearth of home' higher than the altar of any god; an iconoclast, a builder -- a reformer, perfectly poised, absolutely honest, and as fearless as truth itself -- the most aggressive and formidable foe of superstition -- the most valiant champion of reason -- Robert G. Ingersoll.”
― Herman E. Kittredge, Ingersoll: A Biographical Appreciation

“And, oh yes, I did see Nessie! But that was much later on after a late evening that involved several pints and more than my share of Scapa Flow whisky. Nice girl. Pretty face. Longish neck. Not much in the leg department.”
― Ian MacGregger, The Toast of Broadway: An Omega-AlphaThriller

“Ishbel read maps like storybooks. She was getting off the island, and no one was going to stop her. That was all just romance, just fairytales, because anyone can leave the island. Since they built the bridge, leaving should be as easy as sticking your keys in the car ignition. But leaving is never easy.”
― Kirsty Logan, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

“Her breath caught when his erection shot to rigid. "Merciful Father, Ye're like a stallion with a mare in heat.”
― Amy Jarecki, Beauty and the Barbarian

“Are ye always standing like a stallion?"
His low chuckle brought another wave of gooseflesh across her skin.
"Only when Ye're near.”
― Amy Jarecki, Beauty and the Barbarian

“Don't marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper.”
― Scottish Proverb

“You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough."
"It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."
Ryder made a face. "Are you insane? why say something like that and temp the cosmos?"
Laith watch him walk away, wondering if he had just drawn the interest of fate.”
― Donna Grant, Hot Blooded

“Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.”
― Sara Sheridan, Ma Polinski's Pockets

“It was early evening twilight when we came around a corner… and there in the road was a red deer stag. He leapt up the bank beside the road and then paused, looking back over his shoulder as we passed. Like a scene in a dream I watched him as he watched me. He was so close… so still and so beautiful. There was an instant of knowing that my heart was as trapped in this beautiful wildness as my eyes were caught in his calm curious gaze. It was a slowly growing realisation that I had fallen in love a third time… with this lovely, cold strange world of water and stone, sharp light and deep shadows.

And I would never be the same again.”
― Michelle Frost

“I doona understand them," Ryder said as he stopped beside Laith. "Doona get me wrong. I love the feel of a woman's thighs around me, but to be bound to a single woman for eternity?" Ryder shuddered. "It's no' for me. Human or Fae.”
― Donna Grant, Hot Blooded

“You need to wear less clothing, lass.”
― Terry Spear, Forbidden Love

“Were ye sent by the fairy folk? Do no' lie to me.”
― Amy Jarecki, Beauty and the Barbarian

“I do no' think ye should lick me leg.”
― Amy Jarecki, Beauty and the Barbarian

“Tommy looked blank. "What's a flashlight?"

"You don't have flashlights?" Jessup said. "Jeeze! A cylinder, like, with batteries inside it, and a light bulb behind glass at one end--"

Tommy's blue eyes glinted dangerously. "We have a thing in Scotland that's a cylinder too. Very thin, made of wood, with graphite in the center. We call it a pencil."

Jessup hooted. "You think we don't have pencils?"

"You think we don't have flashlights?" Tommy snapped. "That's just American dialect. In the English language they're called torches."

Emily said mildly, "Actually we're Canadians.”
― Susan Cooper, The Boggart

“Fools look to tomorrow; Wise men use tonight”
― Scottish Proverb

“Takes a special kind to go
another kind to stay here

........

Nowhere do such patriots so embrace
the leaving of the place”
― Kate Tough, 26 Treasures

“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.”
― Sara Sheridan, The Blessed and the Damned

“Bite me, love.”
― Terry Spear, Forbidden Love

“How could their love for each other be so wrong?”
― Terry Spear, Forbidden Love

“His tongue tapped his top lip as he cupped her breast in his hand. "Tis boidhche --beautiful.”
― Amy Jarecki, The Highland Henchman

“Are ye hungry?" she asked, her voice soothing.
His stomach growled. "I could cut the heart out of a stag and eat it raw."
She chuckled. "Fortunately, we do no' have to go to such extremes.”
― Amy Jarecki, Beauty and the Barbarian

“Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?”
― Amy Jarecki, Beauty and the Barbarian

“Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.”
― Amy Jarecki, Beauty and the Barbarian

“We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow.”
― Margot McCuaig, The Birds That Never Flew

“Lilith opened the shutters and allowed herself to bathe in the bright moonlight, as it shone across the Highland Glen.”
― Alan Kinross, Longinus The Vampire: Redemption

“Someday, I’ll gain telepathic powers like every other regular movie ghost and I will go all Freddie Krueger on his bony, little, rat arse!”
I rolled my eyes, but kept marching down the street.
“Then I’d have to go all Ghostbusters on yours.”, I tried to keep my voice low to keep from drawing attention to myself.
“No, you wouldn’t. You love my arse, darling!”, he walked backwards few feet in front of me.
His big smile was enough to make me grin and roll my eyes again at him.”
― Tia Artemis, The Death's Daughter