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      • Richard Holloway
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      • Robert Adam
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      • The Wallace Monument
      • Tower of Glenstrae
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      • Abergeldie foot bridge
      • Forth Road Bridge
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    • D.L.R.O.W
      • The mild cigar
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    • Ena Scott
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        • Abergeldie castle
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          • The Bovaglie manuscript
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      • Peter Davidson
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      • Stigliano, Tuscany, Italy
      • The Dragon’s Hole
      • The Fortingall Yew
      • The Hill
      • The John Muir Way
      • The living mountain
      • The Lost Garden of Dunira
      • The suicide graves
      • Tillybin
    • Mortar and Pestles
    • Mrs Picken
    • Stories
    • The bicycle tree
    • The Jam factory
    • Waverley
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    • Bridge of Allan
      • ‘A Lecropt Girl’
      • ‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
      • 105 Henderson Street
      • Ashintrool
      • Borrowmeadow Farm
      • Bridge of Allan Highland Games
      • Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s
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        • Charles Neil Rutherfoord
        • Gilbert Farie
        • Oswald Robertson
      • Craig Mair
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        • Rab Scott
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      • Finn Russell
      • Glimpses of Local History
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      • Jerah
      • Keir Estate, Stirling
      • Keirfield
        • David Rutherfoord
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      • Lecropt and Larger Scotland
      • Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
      • Millad
      • Miss Jessie lennox
      • Museum Hall
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      • Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
      • Our first village shop
      • Our village in old photographs and writings
      • Pictures of Bridge of Allan
      • Rev Charles Rogers
      • Rev Charles Rogers
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • St Ann’s
      • Stevenson’s cave
      • The Cleopatra needle
      • The Fountain of Nineveh
      • The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
      • The Rutherfoord family: Ten summers fade
      • The Rutherford letters
      • The Wharrie Glen
      • The Wrights of Loss
      • Village doctors
        • Dr A. S. Biggart
        • Dr Alexander Paterson
        • Dr Balbirnie
        • Dr Eric Dow
        • Dr John Hossack Fraser
        • Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord
        • Dr Mary Baird Hannah
        • Dr William Haldane
        • Dr William Halliday Welsh
      • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
    • Folk worth talking about
      • “Dr Frederick Adair”
      • Albert Bayne, DCM
      • Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA
      • Andy Murray
      • Annie Graham Baird
      • Arthur
      • C. P. Snow
      • Captain Alexander Morrison
      • Charles Rogers
      • Clive Wright
      • David Bowie
      • Davina Gordon
      • Dr Pat Beausang
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      • Elijah Wood
      • Ella Rae
      • Felix Feneon
      • Finn Russell
      • Fittie’s Tragic Harbourmaster
      • Geoffrey Jellicoe
        • Scratches
      • Gregory’s girl
      • Ian Collins
      • J. J. R. Macleod
      • James Woodburn Dunlop
      • John Glen Parker
      • John Marshall Scott
      • Johnston Shearer
      • Lord Esher
      • My Great Uncle Peter
      • Nancy Prentice
      • Oswald Bates
      • Patrick Geddes
      • Peter Pan
      • Rashiebog
      • Rev Charles Rogers
      • Rev. I. M. Jolly
      • Robert Hutchison
      • Sian
      • The Lighthouse Georgesons
      • The Odd Dr Todd
      • The Owl Man
      • The Wizard of the North
      • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
    • Gilbert Farie
    • Ruins
      • Almond or Haining castle
      • Amisfield, Haddington
      • Argaty House
      • Arnhall castle
      • Arnmore House
      • Auchengray House
      • Auchtavan
      • Avondale House
      • Bandeath armaments depot
      • Bannockburn House
      • Bishopsfauld
      • Bridgealehouse
      • Brucklay castle
      • Caldwell House
      • Cammo House and Estate
      • Carnock House
      • Carstairs Mausoleum
      • Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay
      • Castle Newe
      • Castlehill Colliery
      • Cherryton Brick Works
      • Clinterty
      • Club’s Tomb
      • Crawford Priory
      • Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie
      • Dunalastair
      • Duncrub house
      • Dunmore House
      • Duntarvie castle
      • Dupplin West Lodge
      • Edmonstone house and park
      • Evelick castle
      • Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium
      • Falcon Hall
      • Feddal castle
      • Fishtown of Usan
      • Gesto House, Skye
      • Glendevon castle
      • Hartshaw Tower
      • Hatton estate
      • Hundy Mundy
      • Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’
      • Kennetpans
      • Kilmadock old churchyard
      • Kilmaron castle
      • Kingsborough, Skye
      • Kingseat Hospital
      • Kipps
      • Knowegreens Inn
      • Knowsie House
      • Lanrick castle (demolished)
      • Largo House
      • Lathallan House
      • Lathallan House
      • Lynedoch
      • Maison Dieu, Brechin
      • Meigle steading
      • Millearne
      • Newton of Condie
      • Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
      • Pitmiddle village
      • Polmaise castle
      • Roseberry steading
      • Royal Cornhill Hospital
      • St Peter’s Seminary
      • Straid
      • The Esher-Stank mausoleum
      • The lost garden of Penicuik
      • The Macrae Monument
      • The Mavisbank Trust
        • Mavisbank (as Clerk’s “villa”)
        • Mavisbank (maps and plans)
        • Mavisbank (newspaper cuttings)
        • Mavisbank (the Asylum years)
        • Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
        • Mavisbank: Talk to the Civic Trust Conference
      • The Temple of Decision
      • Waterloo Tower
    • The Ageing Stone
    • The Antiquary
    • The Great Tapestry of Scotland
    • The Wilkie’s of Errol
    • There was an insistent present tenseness

Matt Haig

These are selected quotes from the novel ‘How to stop time’ by Matt Haig

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