"Magnetic north" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... parts of the dynamos and the motor in the boat dragged the reluctant point of steel slowly, flutteringly, but surely, from its affinity, the magnetic North. ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart
... did make a difference, a profoundly disturbing difference. He had grown insulated against the memory of Sophie Carr tugging at his heartstrings as the magnetic north pulls on the compass needle. He had grown free of both thought and hope of her. There had been too many other vital things pressing upon him these months of adventure in toil, too many undeniable, everyday ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair |
