The Blackhouse (The Lewis Trilogy)

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

– A. E. Housman,
‘Blue Remembered Hills’

Tri rudan a thig gun iarraidh: an
t-eagal, an t-eudach ’s an gaol
.
(Three things that come without
asking: fear, love and jealousy.)

– a Gaelic proverb