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“She tries to force memories to the surface of her mind, picturing them as stones on the bottom of a lake that she has to push upwards. But it doesn’t work like that. Memories, like stones, have their own gravity.”

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“She remembers that sphagnum moss is an antiseptic, that the Celts used it to pack their wounds after battle. Soldiers in World War One did the same. She likes to cling on to bits of information like that, the type that links the ancient past to the near-present. It makes the strangeness of the present less strange.”

Information Celtic The Lighthouse Witches Natural Healing Ancient Healing Antiseptic Soldiers Ww1 Sphagnum Moss

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“I tried to force myself to enjoy every detail, every second of time. When I looked out at the beach, I imagined each grain of sand like a measure of time that I’d been allotted. I could either let them run through my hands or I could stop and pay attention.”

Time Pay Attention Beach The Lighthouse Witches Grain Of Sand

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“Each week day I dropped the girls off to school at eight am, then worked solidly until I collected them from afterschool club at five-thirty, often returning to the Longing once they were in bed. I enjoyed Finn’s conversational tour of Lòn Haven, and occasionally his death metal tapes. Here, on Lòn Haven, I was untethered from the past. Everything I’d carried for the last fifteen years – the shock of my pregnancy with Saffy, the grief at losing Sean, and now, that terrifying phone call – was gobbled up by the ravenous tide. And witnessing the Longing transform, stroke by stroke, into something a little less knackered, its former glory beginning to creep back, was rewarding. I felt that, maybe, I could start again, too.”

Past Hope Future Parenting Present The Lighthouse Witches Death Metal

Author:C J Cooke

“These are machair orchids,’ he told me. ‘I grow them on my land. They’re native to the western isles, where my mother was born. They’re fragile as soap bubbles, these things. I grow them in a greenhouse.”

Flowers Scotland Orchids The Lighthouse Witches Western Isles Machair Machair Orchids

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“Why don’t you like him?’ He screwed up his face. ‘It’s nothing personal. He’s just a bit of a bawbag.”

Insult Scottish The Lighthouse Witches Bawbag

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“…sometimes you can miss someone so badly you just want to believe you’ve found them, you know?”

Belief Missing Someone The Lighthouse Witches

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“How would you learn right if you knew not wrong? How would you choose good if you knew not evil? How would you recognise the light if there were no darkness? How would you move if there were no resistance?”

Good And Evil Light And Darkness Right And Wrong Theosophy Avatar Solaran Avataras

Book:Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899

Source: Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899

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