# Quote — Iain M. Banks, Transition

> Scotland is wet and dreary. Don’t let anybody tell you different. Even the hills are mostly just big mounds, not proper mountains like the Alps or the Rockies. People will tell you it’s all romantic and rugged but I’ve yet to see the evidence. Even when it’s nice it’s covered in a cloud of these bastard little insects called midges so you have to stay inside anyway. Plus it’s full of Scots. Case rested.

- Author: [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md)
- Book: [Transition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition.md)
- Page: 108
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Transition_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/scotland-is-wet

## More from this book

> It’s even more important to prosecute police who’ve broken the law than it is to prosecute anybody else, because otherwise nobody trusts the police.

p. 266 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/its-even-more.md)

> I only tell them that because that’s what they like to hear, what they want to hear. That’s one of the lessons I’ve learned, isn’t it? You can go a long way just telling people what they want to hear. Of course, you got to be careful, and you got to choose the right people, but still, know that I mean?

p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/i-only-tell.md)

> One of the wisest things anybody ever said to me was that if all you ever care about is money, money is all that will ever care for you.

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/one-of-the.md)