Markus Zusak
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (Knopf Books for Young Readers; First edition March 14, 2006)
Category: Australian Literature
Elizabeth Grosz
To submit one’s pleasures and desires to enumeration and definitive articulation is to submit processes and becomings, to entities, locations, and boundaries, to become welded to an organizing nucleus of fantasy and desire whose goal is not simply pleasure and expansion, but control, and the tying of the new to models of what is already… Continue reading Elizabeth Grosz
Colleen McCullough
There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it… Continue reading Colleen McCullough
Markus Zusak
If your eyes could speak, what would they say? — Markus Zusak, The Book Thief. (Knopf Books for Young Readers; First edition March 14, 2006)
Christina Stead
There are people with great gifts who want to create, but are not self-centered enough. The glory of creation is in them. They end by creating themselves; and they are miraculous creatures. People fall in love with them, because they’ve made something new. – Christina Stead, The Puzzleheaded Girl (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967)
Alison Croggon
Ars Poetica It will make no difference.But you’ll find you can’t speak without lovealthough it’s an imprisonment.Your voice must be love wrestled to unloving,the lyre at the moment of catastrophe, a silencewithin which another voice opens. You’ll speak as you must, as always,although you’ll never know why you’re listeningthrough the elisions of your stuttering heart.You’ll… Continue reading Alison Croggon
Peter Carey
To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely. — Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda. (Faber and Faber; 1St Edition edition 1988)
Kate Morton
It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it, the way we throw people away? — Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper. (Atria Books; First Edition edition October 16, 2012)
Beau Taplin
Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it. ― Beau Taplin
Eva Ibbotson
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood – it was just that so very often they were dead, and in a book. — Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans, (Century Publishing 1985)
The Vale of Soul-Making 