Matthew Bapty

“Maybe we'd all be much more effective communicators if we all shut up more.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“...as if, one lover gone, I was opening up for an immediate replacement. Smack habit, love habit - what's the difference? They can both kill you. For the bus journey I fell in love with a woman who smiled at me. The motion of the bus made her thick mop of fair curls tremble. We talked about desperados.

'I am fatally attracted to them', I said. 'In fact, I probably am one'.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip

“We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways.”
― Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything

“The tilapia has been drowned in a garlic and chilli and coriander sauce, so many exposed white bones in its charred and thorny dorsal fin that they look like the ivory keys in the warped piano organ the devil plays in hell.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe