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

“What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.”
― Neil M Gunn

“...an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel”
― 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