# Ross Macdonald

- Quotes: 13
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald

## Books

- [Sleeping Beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/sleeping-beauty.md) — 2 quotes
- [The Blue Hammer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-blue-hammer.md) — 2 quotes
- [The Drowning Pool](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-drowning-pool.md) — 1 quote
- [The Galton Case](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-galton-case.md) — 1 quote
- [The Goodbye Look](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-goodbye-look.md) — 4 quotes
- [The Moving Target](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-moving-target.md) — 1 quote
- [The Way Some People Die](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-way-some-people-die.md) — 2 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/sleeping-beauty/every-witness-has.md)

> I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/sleeping-beauty/i-knew-how.md)

> "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."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-goodbye-look/you-have-a-secret.md)

> The moral beatings that people took from their children, I was thinking, were the hardest to endure and the hardest to escape.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-goodbye-look/the-moral-beatings.md)

> Deep feeling sounded in her voice. I had no doubt that the feeling was partly sincere. Still, there was something unreal about it. I suspected that she'd been playing tricks with her emotions for a long time, until none of them was quite valid.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-galton-case/deep-feeling-sounded.md)

> Money costs too much.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-goodbye-look/money-costs-too.md)

> There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns — different states, if possible — and write each other letters once a year.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-blue-hammer/there-are-certain.md)

> We went inside and I kissed her. Not only my temperature rose.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-blue-hammer/we-went-inside.md)

> When your income passes a certain point you lose touch. All of a sudden the other people look like geeks or gooks, expendables.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-goodbye-look/when-your-income.md)

> They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut down a thousand year of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-drowning-pool/they-had-jerrybuilt.md)

> Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-moving-target/nothing-wrong-with.md)

> An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-way-some-people-die/an-ugly-woman.md)