Chloe Hooper > Quotes

“I'm like an old record--Be my guest is the signature song; Please go away, always on side B.”
― Chloe Hooper, A Child's Book of True Crime

“What had Chris Hurley dreamt of being? What had Cameron Doomadgee? When Hurley was doing rugby training at a Christian Brothers school, Doomadgee was in a youth detention centre. By the time Hurley was setting up a sports club for kids on Thursday Island, Cameron had a child and a broken relationship. As Hurley picked his way along the police career path, the other man was like his shadow. The date of their meeting was gaining on him. Hurley had success in his name, Cameron had doom in his. But the bitter joke of reconciliation in Australia was that the lives of these two men were supposed to be weighed equally.”
― Chloe Hooper, Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee

“members”
― Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island

“radio shock jocks were soon telling an audience eager to believe in their own righteousness and sound mental health that the impairment was fake.”
― Chloe Hooper, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

“Death entered the medical miracle of the twentieth century already camouflaged. But in scientifically advanced nations, it now takes place in hospitals or nursing homes, out of view, a medical failure rather than a natural process. And, to 'protect' our children, rarely does it make an appearance within their beautifully illustrated picture books.”
― Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

“Grief has pulled her out further than she thought she could go. To the edge of what it is possible to bear, of what's habitable, and then further again.”
― Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story

“one time she heard a policeman giving a belting to teenagers who’d been bullying the boy. Part of her wished someone would do that for her son. When Brendan reached high school age he attended Morwell Technical College, a fifteen-”
― Chloe Hooper, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

“You know that grief cannot be avoided. And that when it finds a person, they might look the same but they're changed: their missing person has altered the atmosphere in the house, the classroom, the playground; on birthdays and holidays; amongst friends and with the parent who survives.”
― Chloe Hooper, Bedtime Story