Kylie

“for all she resents the unfair advantages given to the opposite sex, she does not want to be a man, she only wants it not to matter that she is a woman.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“The children observe this too: his ability to acknowledge futility yet have a go anyway. To set off optimistically even if you soon find yourself back at the start. They are accustomed to all their attempts at anything being marked with a definite cross or a tick, but Taras does not appear to mind a cross. He even gives them to himself. It is a topsy-turvy way of thinking, but there is an intriguing ease to it, a widening of space. It seems a good way to do things, especially now, in this summer of laxity, this time of slack water.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“War might depend on people who don’t flinch, but humanity rather relies on those who do.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“knew EVERYTHING when I was twelve years old, and with each year of my life, I know a little less, and there is a freedom in that.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre