Explore Book Quotes

“I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.”

“My counsel to you is to make sure your mirror is set so that you can see the past without allowing it to distract you from the present.”

“If the thought of lack – whether it be money, recognition, or love – has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.”

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”

It’s a tale firmly rooted in aboriginal myth and culture, but one that will appeal to any child who’s been afraid of the dark.

“If you wish for things you can’t possibly hope for, you’re only going to be disappointed.”

“it seemed such a slight offense, and the punishment was so out of all proportion”

A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

“Moral compasses meant nothing in the face of starvation.”

“We live in Glebe, a suburb just outside the city center of Sydney and ten minutes away from the harbor. Glebe has two facades One is of beautiful tree-lined streets with gorgeous old homes, and the other, which is supposed to be trendy, has old terrace houses with views of outhouses and clothes-lines. I belong to the latter. Our house is an old terrace. We, my mother Christina and I, live on the top. We were actually renting the place till I was twelve, but the owner sold it to us for a great price, and although I’ve calculated that Mama will paid it off when I’m thirty-two, it’s good not to be rending in these days of housing problems.”