“She is the living memorial as to why Scots want their own parliament.”

“Strategically, as leader of the Green Party and the first elected Green in Parliament, I didn’t want to be in a renovated bank building,” she says. “I wanted to be on Parliament Hill, in a building that screams out at you, this is Parliament!”

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

“Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?”

“If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.”

“I respect the view of every Scot and every person living in Scotland. And I do so with a clear sense of my own responsibility to lead change and to argue for what I believe is in the Scottish national interest.”

“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”

“It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.”

“I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require – the restoration of our domestic parliament…”