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“We'll meet and click and sit up all night and everything will tip out of me and into him and the other way around and while we're tipping the night will fade and the world will get pink and in that pinkness he'll kiss me.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“I guess there are a lot of people who don't know the right thing to say. You don't notice them so much because they pretend they do.”
― Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

“I can't believe you're still mad at me," Ed says.
"You grabbed my arse."
"You broke my nose."
"You broke his nose?" Jazz asks. "You grabbed her arse?"
"It was two years ago-"
"Two years, four months, and eight days," I tell him.
"-and I was fifteen, and I slipped and she broke my nose."
"Wait a minute. How do you slip onto someone's arse?"
Jazz asks.
"I meant slipped up. I slipped up and she broke my nose."
"You're lucky that's all I broke," I say.
"You're lucky I didn't call the police."
Leo, Dylan, and Daisy slid into the booth. "Did you guys know that Lucy broke Ed's nose? Jazz asks.
Ed closes his eyes silently and bangs his head on the wall.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“We're not spending the night looking for ourselves.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“Most times I look at Shadow and Poet's work, I see something different from what the words are telling me. I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what's on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“I look across at the line of the city. The nights are mean in this place, full of smog that eats the stars. 'Who does feel hope around here?”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“It's when I'm around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now, when Dave's walking next to me wearing an old black singlet and board shorts and the tattoo of a bird on his wrist, every single word in my head except "no" and "huh" is lying somewhere on a beack getting a suntan”
― Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

“We were the only three people awake in a world half asleep and the air felt heavy with maybe.”
― Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

“Go along with it, Ed. I am begging. I am on the ground begging you." "You're standing at a urinal about to take a piss." "Don't make me get on the ground. Do you know how many germs there are in a toilet?”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“To the train yard,' she says and pushes on the pedals. We don't move.
`Anytime,' I tell her. `You know. While we're still young and beautiful.'
She pushes hard again.
`You weigh a tonne.'
`You need me to drive?'
`I need momentum, that's all. Get off.'
`You're very charming, but you must hear that all the time.'
`Get off,' she says.`I'll ride and you run after me and jump on the bike.'
`Do many guys ask you out twice?'
`Only the ones with balls.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“Humor without sadness is just pie in the face”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“Being different is the only way to live”
― Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

“Some people aren't worth crying for.”
― Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

“I hear everything he's ever painted in his voice. I hear that person on the beach, looking at the waves. I hear hearts rocked by earthquakes and disappointed seas. I make myself look at him because he needs to be looked at. He needs to be seen. I hate that he's been on his own so long, painting graffiti moons and bricked-in birds and keeping quiet about who he really is.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“I'm always looking for what will make me whole. What will make me happy? Somewhere along the way I started to think it wasn't Helen anymore. She hasn't changed. Her laugh is still the one I remember. Her finger is still the one I put the ring on all those years ago. I can't understand why I don't want to curve next to her, keep her back warm anymore. Surely you don't lose love like keys?”
― Cath Crowley, The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain

“I like how you shake
Off years of ordinary
Cover me with extraordinary
Ways of seeing I never saw before
But now I do”
― Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

“She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.”
― Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

“I asked him what it was like to have a dad. He said he didn't think it mattered who you had as long as you had somebody good.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“The universe must be having a slow night.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“You're funny, which you can't be if you're not smart. Dad says it's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them smile.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“Kiss someone, then," I say. "Not anyone.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“I've got this special way of getting the truth out of Dylan."
"How?" i ask.
"I kick him in the balls."
"That's pretty special,”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“She's the psychic but she can't see what's coming up: the intersection of hurt and more hurt. The blind spot there is a killer.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“Ed gives him a dirty look. Leo grins. Dylan twitches. It feels like something's going on, I think loudly, and I know that Jazz hears my thought because she gives me her serious look and blows a chewing-gum bubble in my direction.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“What's up with you?" "I'm grounded," I say, just to say something real. "I told Mum to fuck off." He whistles. "Why'd you tell her that? Any other 'off' leaves room for parole. 'Sod off,' 'shove off'—even 'sock off' is still pretty satisfying." "You've told your dad to sock off?" "Once. He said, 'What the fuck is "sock off"? Be a man and tell me to fuck off.'" "So did you tell him?" "No. Because that was the trap. There's never time out for good behavior with 'fuck off.”
― Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

“Well, all girls called Beth are arse grabbers.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“I told him he was dreaming. He told me dreaming's the only way to get anywhere.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“he wasn't who I thought he'd be. Mum stroked my hair and said, "Sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they make you vomit."
This did not comfort me.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon