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I mean it. You are going to be an amazing artist, and I’m going to get married, and between us we’re both going to get out of here and away from this dump. (Shuggie Bain Quotes)
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
If you want to survive, you need to try harder, Shuggie.
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
None of the other landlords had wanted to rent to a fifteen-year-old boy who was pretending to be one day past his sixteenth birthday.
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
Once upon a time the wind whipping off the sea had turned the front of her thighs blue with the cold, but Agnes couldn’t feel it because she had been happy.
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial.
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
She was drinking like she wanted to get somewhere else.
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
The morning light was the colour of too-milky tea. It snuck into the bedsit like a sly ghost, crossing the carpet and inching slowly up his bare legs.
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
The thousand blinking lights from the promenade rained down on her, and she moved towards them with a slack mouth. She was so struck she hardly drew a breath. The black paillettes on her new dress reflected the bright lights and sent them back twinkling into the Fair Fortnight crowd till she looked as radiant as the illuminations herself.
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
