The Silver Darlings Quotes

“Surely love, if there was any such thing, should be ease and tenderness...”
― Neil M. Gunn, The Silver Darlings

“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, The Silver Darlings

“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

“They apprehended it in the imagination, and feared the evil of it more than they feared death, as though its uncleanness, its taint, its corruption, would not only destroy and rot the body but pursue the living quick beyond the grave itself. Their instinct of recoil was an instinct of pure horror.”
― Neil M. Gunn, The Silver Darlings