Terry Savill

“They should never have met, they were destined for each other, he would make her life and destroy her life and she would make her life in spite of his life, he would be an inexhaustible source of love and friendship for her for the next thirty-five years, he would madden her, he would win her and lose her and win her, she would be the one person he cared to see to the end, and to her immense surprise only after his death would she discover within herself the one thing she had never expected: a crack in the cup of life that opened into a desolation that was utter and inconsolable.”
― Richard Flanagan, Question 7

“It was a time of wonder and all things had the shape of miracles. And like a miracle, no evidence that it ever happened remains.”
― Richard Flanagan, Question 7

“Money,’ my father would say, ‘is like shit. Pile it up and it stinks. Spread it around and you can grow things.”
― Richard Flanagan, Question 7

“My parents were frugal not simply because they had to be careful, but because they saw little reason for making life about money.”
― Richard Flanagan, Question 7