# Quote — George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

> For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

- Author: [George MacDonald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-macdonald.md)
- Book: [At the Back of the North Wind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-macdonald/at-the-back-of-the-north-wind.md)
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> Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! — 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.

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> Where did you come from baby dear?
>
> Out of the everywhere into the here....
>
> Where did you get your eyes so blue?
>
> Out of the skies as I came through.

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