“Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.”
George MacDonald book At the Back of the North Wind
Source: At the Back of the North Wind
Quotes from bookAt the Back of the North Wind
At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book written by Scottish author George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy centered on a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind. Diamond travels together with the mysterious Lady North Wind through the nights. The book includes the fairy tale Little Daylight, which has been pulled out as an independent work, or separately, added to other collections of his fairy tales.
George MacDonald book At the Back of the North Wind
Source: At the Back of the North Wind (1871), Chapter 18
“Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.”
George MacDonald book At the Back of the North Wind
Source: At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald book At the Back of the North Wind
just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.
At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
