“"You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?""I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people."”Ross Macdonald The Goodbye Look (1969)
“When your income passes a certain point you lose touch. All of a sudden the other people look like geeks or gooks, expendables.”Ross Macdonald The Goodbye Look (1969)
“The moral beatings that people took from their children, I was thinking, were the hardest to endure and the hardest to escape.”Ross Macdonald The Goodbye Look (1969)