Georgia Blain > Quotes

“She was gone but it seemed she was still always there, right at the center.”
― Georgia Blain, Darkwater

“the darkness of the summer slowly unfurling, never to be completely gone, but fading to become no more than a part of the life that surrounds it.”
― Georgia Blain, Darkwater

“Who knows why we tic tac? ...there's more to it than a desire to irritate.”
― Georgia Blain, Darkwater

“It is strange how often we long for life to move forward: I just have to get through this, we think, as though the past, with all its fears and fuck-ups and anxieties, can be completely left behind, neat, contained, never spilling over the line we imagine is waiting for us. And yet the past is always there, hovering at the edge, teasing us, reappearing when we least expect it, and then sliding away again, where it waits, the warmth of its breath reminding us that it still lives.”
― Georgia Blain, We All Lived in Bondi Then

“It is strange how often we long for life to move forward; I just have to get through this, we think, as though the past, with all its fears and fuck-ups and anxieties, can be completely left behind, neat, contained, never spilling over the line we imagine is waiting for us. And yet the past is always there, hovering at the edge, teasing us, reappearing when we least expect it, and then sliding away again, where it waits, the warmth of its breath reminding us that it still lives.”
― Georgia Blain, We All Lived in Bondi Then