Macdonald Quotes

“A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“He could bear no one’s suffering. Especially not a woman’s. He was born amid the Glencoe Massacre and survived when many in his clan did not. He and the throes of suffering were well acquainted.”
― Maeve Greyson, Saving Her Highland Traitor

“Gibbie's was love simple, unselfish, undemanding--not merely asking for no return, but asking for no recognition, requiring not even that its existence should be known. He was a rare one, who did not make the common miserable blunder of taking the shadow cast by love--the desire, namely, to be loved--for love itself; his love was a vertical sun, and his own shadow was under his feet.”
― George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie