Peter Carey Quotes

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love....And thus f...

...it was born out of habits of mind produced by Christianity: that if you sacrificed yourself you w...

Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared no...

She held out her hand, like a man. He hesitated, then took the hand and shook it. It was very warm. ...

He was tender with her. He wiped her eyelids with his handkerchief, not noticing how soiled it was. ...

She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left h...

Fireworks made of glass. An explosion of dew. Crescendo. Diminuendo. Silence.There are drugs that wo...

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how ma...

I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjec...

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. Howe...