"Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up."

“Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.”

“I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.”

“Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.”

“Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?”

“True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.”

“I met the guys at HeavyRoc through the drummer in St. Lucia, Nick Brown. He is Ben from The Knocks' cousin, and at the time we'd been doing some work together, but everything was still very much in the unsure developmental phase (even though I'd been in it for a year and a half). I told him that if he was going to play the music for anyone that he shouldn't say anything about it and should just play it and see if anyone says anything, and he did it one day at their studio and they loved it and got it touch.”

“There are no bad days in the market. When the market is down, you've got bargains, and it's lovely to think of what you are buying at low prices. When the market is up, the bargains have gone, but you're rich.”

“,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.”