Perthites were like the Swan River's jellyfish - small…

“Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things.”

— Dave Franklin

“No one liked to get too upset in WA's capital, a genuine hindrance to Perth forging its own identity. Less than two hundred years…

— Dave Franklin

“I'd rather just slip on my halo of flies and stay here, if you don't mind.”

— Dave Franklin

“Admit it: you live in a straitjacket called society that’s chillingly adroit at forcing you to behave. You do what’s expected, right? You rarely,…

— Dave Franklin

“Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather…

— Dave Franklin

“Are you ready to try to tame the Wrath?”

— Dave Franklin

“God, he loved being a bloke. He loved it so much. He wouldn't be a woman for all the money in the world.”

— Dave Franklin

“I seem to feel ashamed of going out and getting merry - I find it oddly humiliating - but I'm quite happy to sit…

— Dave Franklin

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is,…

— Dave Franklin

“When it comes to men, women will insist that a lunge in their direction is not always welcome, and yet they cannot forgive a…

— Dave Franklin

“No one wants to fuck a critic.”

— Dave Franklin

“Perhaps you don't have to do anything wrong for someone to reject you.”

— Dave Franklin

“When you think about it, being trained by a Gladiator is almost as good as being trained by the SAS.”

— Dave Franklin

“Funny how you never forget the girls from school, huh?”

— Dave Franklin