Emma McDowall

“We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a feeling that that is not just. I do not grudge them their riches and all it can buy for them.”
― Neil M. Gunn, Young Art and Old Hector: A Novel

“You would think," added Art, "that a wedding was a great thing."
"Well," replied Old Hector, "it's not a small thing, as a rule. They contrive, one way or another, to make a lot of it.”
― Neil M. Gunn

“In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world.”
― Neil M. Gunn, The Silver Darlings

“in a few moments he came into the core of himself, where he was alone, and felt strangely companioned, not by anyone or anything, but by himself. The rejected self found refuge here, not a cowed refuge, but somehow a wandering ease; as if it were indestructible, and had its own final pride, its own secret eyes.”
― Neil M. Gunn