Clare Strahan > Quotes

“Currents shift and move but it's only where the water breaks that the wave becomes visible. A pandemonium occurs, where substances collide, and then something new comes into being.”
― Clare Strahan, The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge

“Shearwater chicks have to head out on their own the first time they jump but then their parents meet them after replenishing themselves on Antarctic krill and they all migrate together.”
― Clare Strahan, The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge

“I wonder what it was like for Anne, that first time with Gilbert Blythe. Somehow I can't imagine her giving him a head job in the horse and buggy.”
― Clare Strahan, The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge

“Why is the swear word for female genitalia the insult of all insults, the most offensive thing we can possibly imagine saying?”
― Clare Strahan, The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge

“Like netball, special casualness is not an area in which I am a high achiever but no one ever got anywhere without trying.”
― Clare Strahan, The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge

“I was sailing in a pea-green boat on a quiet sea and now I'm thrown into the breakers, the water moving fast and deep and I can't see a shore to swim to.”
― Clare Strahan, The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge

“This is not the time for questions of epiphany.”
― Clare Strahan, The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge

“Her palm so firm on my forehead while she says a prayer over me in Greek.”
― Clare Strahan, Cracked

“Imagine that - you leave your country and they change the name while you're gone, so in a way, you can never go home.”
― Clare Strahan, Cracked

“Meditative finger painting. I don't suppose da Vinci ever had to put up with crap like this.”
― Clare Strahan, Cracked

“Alison thought Einstein was famous for creating the ultimate wacky-professor hairdo, but apparently he'd worked out some theory as well.”
― Clare Strahan, Cracked

“Make beauty from pain - there's a kind of joy in that; and maybe that's what art is for?”
― Clare Strahan, Cracked

“There is no sane explanation for parents.”
― Clare Strahan, Cracked