Chris Hammer > Quotes

“But then again, the troubled are always young; the old are simply pathetic. Grow old and the edges come off: the mind rationalises, the heart concedes, the soul surrenders. We all grow old and frail, inside as well as out. The twists of reaction become entrenched, character traits become permanent: the resentments, the denials, the rationalisations. We learn to live with it. It’s so much more troubling when we are young and honest.”
― Chris Hammer, Scrublands

“If the bookshelves were pews, and the counter an altar, then this might be a chapel.”
― Chris Hammer, Scrublands

“Moscow, Mongolia, Northern Quebec, but he’s never in his life been as cold as in a Sydney winter. In the northern hemisphere, the denizens respect the seasons, embrace their variability. The same in Canberra and Melbourne, where houses have central heating and double glazing, but not here, not in these remnants of the twentieth century. Here, there is a collective agreement that if winter is ignored it will disappear soon enough.”
― Chris Hammer, Trust

“He walks back towards his admiring colleagues, head down, as if pondering serious new information, when all he’s really doing is avoiding eye contact.”
― Chris Hammer, Scrublands

“Love ’em, look after ’em, support ’em. Set ’em straight when they need it. But don’t think you can change them. They’re who they always were. Simple as that.”
― Chris Hammer, Silver

“smoke.”
― Chris Hammer, Scrublands

“This time of day, there is no one on the streets; mad dogs and Homicide cops. And flies.”
― Chris Hammer, Treasure & Dirt

“Time to leave. Time to find something else to do between here and oblivion.”
― Chris Hammer, Scrublands

“Charisma”
― Chris Hammer, Scrublands

“his shrinking penis red and dripping.”
― Chris Hammer, Scrublands