The Island Cottage Quotes

“I waited until nobody was around, and then roared my indignation and anger at the blameless pigeons pecking blankly around the churchyard. ‘Fuckity fuck!’
A middle-aged couple rounded the bulk of the building and looked at me. ‘It’s just the wee witch,’ said the man, adjusting his shopping bag on his arm.
‘Oh, aye,’ said the woman, and they walked on by, unruffled, as though the local witch screaming at an ecclesiastical establishment was the least weird thing about a Saturday on Mainland.”
― Jane Lovering, The Island Cottage

“Okay, there was a goose in the larder and only one bed, but maybe we could rent it out for honeymooners? Honeymooning ornithologists?”
― Jane Lovering, The Island Cottage