Peter Polites > Quotes

“How we starved for food in Greece and starved for Greece in Australia.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor

“Greeks can’t say horrible things about the dead. But we do it anyway and then say God protect and keep her. She was a horrible woman, a terrible mother and possibly a witch. May God protect and keep her.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor

“Sometimes I don’t think you’re gay, I think you’re just an extreme misogynist. Gays have no temperament for the suffering of women.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor

“You know mainlanders are good people, they aren’t sneaky like us islanders.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor

“But he was always asking us what we learned in school. I think he wished he could have learned with us.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor

“And I don’t think I can see the bodies of the communists in my mind but there was a smell to them. You don’t forget smells because your nose won’t let you. I won’t tell my grandchildren about those memories that are in my nostrils. I will show them how to combine egg and lemon in a soup. And I will teach them how to make Greek words plural.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor

“Few of us realised that we came here to clean their toilets. This country tricked people into thinking that they loved multiculturalism. Made them think that this country was working. That this country was all right when it wasn’t. When the woman Prime Minister lost the election? Remember what I said to you? I knew this country would never tolerate a woman prime minister, this is a country of misogynists, I said that to you. The way this country doesn’t understand women is the way they don’t understand migrants.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor

“All the women have two degrees! Two degrees each! Your sister has three. And the men of your generation? Well, at least they are handsome.”
― Peter Polites, God Forgets About the Poor