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41 " There’s no such thing as God, Charlie, at least not how they say. "
― Craig Silvey
42 " Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds. "
― Craig Silvey , Jasper Jones
43 " So how come people fall out of love, do you think?I don't know. It's true that people change. Or people don't change when you hoped they might. Or they find somebody else they like better. Or people just grow apart, they lose interest in each other's lives. Maybe they realise they made a mistake. There are lots of reasons. "
― Craig Silvey , The Amber Amulet
44 " I wonder if I’ll ever be without fear… Maybe it’s not about being without it. Maybe it’s about how well you walk with the weight. "
45 " I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I’m a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries. "
46 " See, most people you meet, they’ll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they’re lying even before they’ve started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don’t even matter. "
47 " ...I thought that having someone to love, having someone love me back, made me a stronger person. But it was the opposite. It made me weaker because it led me to believe that I couldn't survive without those things. And I spent so long afraid of being alone that I never did anything for myself. I never did anything with myself, which made it all the easier to believe I wasn't capable. "
48 " I think most of the time when I'm yelling at my husband, I'm just yelling at myself. "
49 " Like, I know I'm unbearably obnoxious at home, but I'm actually pretty shy out there. I'm like the chubby quiet brown girl who is decent academically, but who never risks venturing an opinion. It's weird, because, like, in a world full of frost giants and dwarves and demons and spellcasting, my fantasies were really about being a confident, decisive person who had their shit together and was listened to. "
― Craig Silvey , Honeybee
50 " Because a girl goes missing in this town and it’s Jasper Jones who is held and threatened and belted for days, but somehow those monsters will arouse no suspicion. "
51 " A tree doesn’t know it’s a tree. It doesn’t know how pretty its flowers are, or how beautiful they smell, or how soft and sweet its fruit is. It can’t feel how warm I am with my arms around it. It can’t hear me when I tell it these things. It doesn’t know anything. I’m glad you’re not a tree. "
52 " Everyone ages. Everyone can learn a trade and pay taxes and have a family. But that’s not growin up. It’s about how you act when your shit gets shaken up, it’s about how much you see around you. That’s what makes a man. "
53 " Right. I guess it must be comforting to actually believe in God and Jesus and all that. It must fill in all that space so you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But it’s a bit like closing a door when there’s a cold draft, isn’t it? It’s still cold out there, it’s just that you don’t notice anymore because you’re warm. "
54 " I looked at the road below. It was a long way down. I focused on the spot where I would probably land, between the white line and the brown gravel. I wondered if it would hurt or if I would die straight away. Then I wondered who would find me. Maybe it would be a truck driver or a shift worker. I felt bad for them. "
55 " The less you know, the further away you are, the easier it is to shrug and tut and move on. And so Corrigan remains a town of barnacles. A cluster of hard shells that suck themselves stuck and clench themselves shut and choose not to know about dying. "
56 " That’s what you do, right? When you’re readin. You’re seeing what it’s like for other people. "
57 " and it’s right on the spot. In fact, it "
58 " Cricket is the most repetitive enterprise in history. "
59 " See, everyone here’s afraid of something and nuthin. This town, that’s how they live, and they don’t even know it. They stick to what they know, what they bin told. They don’t unnerstand that it’s just a choice you make. "
60 " people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don’t want to doubt you either. It’s too hard. So if you say it like you really mean it to be true, then you’re away. "