“No Orkney weather lasts long, and you can see new weather coming a long way off. There are frequent scraps of rainbow. And birds. At any point you can stop walking, or pull over and lower the car window and hear the cries of peewits and tremulous curlews.”
“Tris: "What if I don't want to cut up aloe leaves?" Rosethorn: "Ask me if I care what you want.”
“All those things that werent supposed to happen? They happened. What happens next is up to you.”
“Try to ensure that your acts of kindness don't become open doors of exploitation to others.”
“Some people suffer in silence, pain in the hearts but smiles on their faces.”