Tina ❣

“Australian shrimp barbecue, when the beers and the rums mix with the hard sun headaches and widespread Saturday night violence spreads across the country behind closed front doors. Truth is, Bich said, Australian childhoods are so idyllic and joyous, so filled with beach visits and backyard games of cricket, that Australian adulthoods can’t possibly meet our childhood expectations. Our perfect early lives in this vast island paradise doom us to melancholy because we know, in the hard honest bones beneath our dubious bronze skin, that we will never again be happier than we were once before. She said we live in the greatest country on earth but we’re actually all miserable deep down inside and the junk cures the misery and the junk industry will never die because Australian misery will never die.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“August is one year older than me but August is one year older than everybody. August is one year older than the universe.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“Do your time before it does you.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“She screamed in my face—I screamed back. Oh, look, we’re harmonizing. Mozart would have loved this.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules