“Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things.” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I'd rather just slip on my halo of flies and stay here, if you don't mind.” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you don't have to do anything wrong for someone to reject you.” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
“Perthites were like the Swan River's jellyfish - small pink blobs adrift in a warm environment.” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
“When you think about it, being trained by a Gladiator is almost as good as being trained by the SAS.” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
