Quotes from Freya North

I think I added pepper too early in the cooking – did you know it loses its potency?

In life, time can't stand still and it's unrealistic to attempt to create a state where it does. There again, time passes all too quickly and lives are too short to make the wrong decisions and have regrets.

The map that said this is where we are. This is who we've always been. This place of yours that will always be here. This place you can always call home.

I have been trying. For over two years, I've been trying. I continue to try. Why do you always imply it's something I have the power to change?

Spring's imminence was a comfort akin to a favourite piece of music playing quietly in the background, all of the time.

it's easy for you to be so sweet.' 'Why? Because I have a well-paid job and a roof over my head and I pay my credit cards off in full each month?

Like many my age, I have left for the mainland. Who is left to watch for the weather and to judge the tides, to buain the peats and gather the crotal, to walk up the high hill and run over the white sand? Here are the faces that know. They know that while I may perceive opportunity to lie further and further away, my heart and soul will always be that of a Hearach.

That's the beauty about love. It's not about give-and-take - it's about feeling safe in one's needs - wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.