Thea Astley > Quotes

“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”
― Thea Astley

“This morning, that morning, was honeycombed with personal restlessness. Evening swells up in lavender, blue, black in these parts, the twenty-thousand-fathom sea of acceptance and a sort of timeless soothing, only to be worried out of its mind by a scratch-rash epidemic of star-white.”
― Thea Astley, The Acolyte

“He was hurling words at his shrinking wife like clods or bricks and she was not dodging but receiving them like a willing saint, enduring abuse like a terrible balm.”
― Thea Astley, Drylands

“I'd like to be able to do that too, matey. Window-shop, go to the odd movie. What’s window-shopping really like, eh? If it’s too much of a feast, you’d better not tell me.”
― Thea Astley, The Acolyte