The Day Boy and the Night Girl Quotes

“Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. ”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“In the windowless tomb of a blind mother, in the dead of the night, under feeble rays of a lamp in an alabaster globe, a girl came into the darkness with a wail.”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“Я уже начала – я не восстаю против твоего солнца, но стараюсь примириться с ним и понять, что оно такое и чего от меня хочет – причинить мне боль или сделать меня лучше. Ты должен так же поступить с моей тьмой.”
― George MacDonald Hocking, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“Possessed by the power of the gorgeous night, she seemed at one and the same moment annihilated and glorified.”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“Immeasurably imperfect it was, but false the impression could not be, for she saw with the eyes made for seeing, and saw indeed what many men are too wise to see.”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“There was the lamp--dead indeed, and so changed that she would never have taken it for a lamp but for the shape! No, it was not the lamp anymore now it was dead, for all that made it a lamp was gone, namely, the bright shining of it.”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“A beautiful moth... She sprang to her feet to follow it - not in the spirit of the hunter, but of the lover.”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl