“So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“Always to be pushing out like this, beyond what I know cannot be the limits - what else should a man's life… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature.” — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“In time, most children stop being puzzled in this way. They settle in. The world around them, as it becomes familiar and… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“I now have of a life that stretches beyond the limits of measurable time.” — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby and makeshift… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“However the story is told and elaborated, the raw shame of it will be with him now til his last breath.” — David Malouf Copy Share Image
The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.” — David Malouf Copy Share Image
