George MacDonald has been one of my favorite authors since about the fourth grade when I read At the Back of the North Wind for a reading contest. Since then I have read The Princess and Curdie, The Princess and the Goblin, The Day Boy and the Night Girl, and the Light Princess.
The Princess and the Goblin was probably one of my favorite books, so here are a couple excerpts from it.
"Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing."
"Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it."
"It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again."
"It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of."
I was very interested to find out that George MacDonald was one of CS Lewis' inspirations for writing. No wonder I like them both!
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