# Quote — Ross Macdonald, The Goodbye Look

> "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."

- Author: [Ross Macdonald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald.md)
- Book: [The Goodbye Look](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-goodbye-look.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ross_Macdonald#The_Goodbye_Look_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ross-macdonald/the-goodbye-look/you-have-a-secret

## More from this book

> 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)

> Money costs too much.

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