“When Australians talk of the men who saved Australia in 1942–43, of that time in their history when they also had to stand alone and help themselves, who fought not for the birth of a nation, but for its very rites of passage,”
― A Bastard of a Place
― A Bastard of a Place
“This town will eat you up if you’re not careful. But I won’t be here forever.”
― Out of the Easy
― Out of the Easy
“Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.”
― Sweet Tooth
― Sweet Tooth
“At first I thought common nouns were hardest hit, coffee and doorway and so on, but it soon became clear that the missing were mostly adjectives.”
― Virgil Wander
― Virgil Wander
“We are all taxonomists, and we constantly sort our lives. We keep the toothpaste separate from the yogurt. We keep files. And we organize stuff.”
― An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace
― An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace
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