Kylie

“Chitchat! Even the phrase is infuriating. Offering inoffensive pieces of conversation to bachelors as if they were babies who needed their food chopped up.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“The war and all its deprivations seem relentless, but for Cristabel, there is a strange and guilty thrill running through it, for it is exactly this thinning of the ordinary that allows the unordinary through. How can it be that she loves this murky, blighted and pockmarked England more than she loved its peaceful green predecessor? Because she can drive a car through it, in a uniform; because she can be with a man in it, without marriage;”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“Flossie finds that letting go of wishes is not always a relief, more a parting. The wish still exists, it has simply taken another road. She can sometimes see it, over in the distance, waving from a high hill. The trick, the task, is to continue on her path, even so.”
― 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