Sleeping Beauty Quotes

“I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.”
― Ross Macdonald, Sleeping Beauty

“We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.”
― Ross Macdonald, Sleeping Beauty

“Down in the dark street, sailors were standing around in disconnected attitudes, like dim purgatorial souls waiting for orders.”
― Ross Macdonald, Sleeping Beauty

“Her expression seemed to keep changing, from grief and fear and dismay to cold indifference. I wondered what caused the changes, or if my mind had conspired with the lights to half imagine them.”
― Ross Macdonald, Sleeping Beauty

“The sunset spilled on the water and flared across the sky. The sky changed through several colors and became a soft crumbled gray. It was like walking under the roof of an enormous cave where hidden fires burned low.”
― Ross Macdonald, Sleeping Beauty