#scott

Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy? ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#hannah-harrington #harper-scott #humour #jake-tolan #sarcasm

Her head titled to the side and her eyebrows crept up her face. It was her uh-durrr face, she was just too kind to actually say it to me. ↗

— H.M. Ward

#humor #katie #mari #trystan-scott #life

Many mickles make a muckle. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#scottish-adage #life

Human sympathy has its limits. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#f-scott-fitzgerald #quotes-to-define-my-life #the-great-gatsby #life

You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#elizabeth-scott #evan #evan-kirkland #lauren #lauren-smith

Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#flying #goliath #love #scott-westerfeld #love

I’m here Bethie. Loving you. Wanting you. I’m not going to run into a hole and lick my wounds. I’m going to bleed in front of you. ↗

— Angela Morrison

#love

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me. ↗

— Robert Burns

#scottish #love

I wrote my first novel, McFarlane Boils The Sea, under the influence of Kelman and Proust, which is like drinking a cocktail of Bowmore and Châteauneuf du Pape. (James Meek in interview with TMO) ↗

— James Meek

#marcel-proust #peoples-act-of-love #scottish-writers #love

Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#scottish-poetry #religion