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The drinking dens are spilling outThere's staggering in the squareThere's lads and lasses falling aboutAnd a crackling in the airDown around the dungeon doorsThe shelters and the queuesEverybody's looking forSomebody's arms to fall intoAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowThere's frost on the graves and the monumentsBut the taverns are warm in townPeople curse the governmentAnd shovel hot food downThe lights are out in the city hallThe castle and the keepThe moon shines down upon it allThe legless and asleepAnd it's cold on the tollgateWith the wagons creeping throughCold on the tollgateGod knows what I could do with youAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowThe garrison sleeps in the citadelWith the ghosts and the ancient stonesHigh up on the parapetA Scottish piper stands aloneAnd high on the windThe highland drums begin to rollAnd something from the past just comesAnd stares into my soulAnd it's cold on the tollgateWith the Caledonian BluesCold on the tollgateGod knows what I could do with youAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowWhat it isIt's what it is nowThere's a chink of light, there's a burning wickThere's a lantern in the towerWee Willie Winkie with a candlestickStill writing songs in the wee wee hoursOn Charlotte Street I takeA walking stick from my hotelThe ghost of Dirty DickIs still in search of Little NellAnd it's what it isIt's what it is nowOh what it isWhat it is now

~ Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler Edinburgh History Scotland Storytelling What It Is

Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours...

~ Martin Hopkins

Martin Hopkins Action Addiction Crime Edinburgh Erotica Homelessness Jekyll Hyde Literary Fiction Pornography Poverty Prostitution Romance Sex Society Suspense Thriller Violence Wealth

Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.

~ Martin Hopkins

Martin Hopkins Action Addiction Crime Edinburgh Erotica Homelessness Jekyll Hyde Literary Fiction Pornography Poverty Prostitution Romance Sex Society Suspense Thriller Violence Wealth

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon.

~ Martin Hopkins

Martin Hopkins Action Addiction Crime Edinburgh Erotica Homelessness Jekyll Hyde Literary Fiction Pornography Poverty Prostitution Romance Sex Society Suspense Thriller Violence Wealth

Edinburgh is alive with words.

~ Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan Alive Edinburgh Words Writing

Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh Travel

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

~ Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan Author Edinburgh Location Novelist Puddle Writer

From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

~ Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin Crime Dead Souls Edinburgh

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

~ James Hogg

James Hogg Edinburgh Gothic Madness Murder Religion Rural Scottish

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

~ James Hogg

James Hogg Edinburgh Gothic Madness Religion Rural Scottish

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

~ Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan Drama Edinburgh Non Fiction Novelists Poets Scotland Scottish Talent Writing

Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.

~ Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan City Edinburgh Ghosts Scotland

This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Alexander Mccall Smith Candlelight City Edinburgh Intellect
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