Craig Silvey

Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.

— Craig Silvey

“Holding something doesn't make it yours. You realize at some point you're just keeping it back for yourself, because it's pulling away…

— Craig Silvey

“See, most people you meet, they'll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they're lying even…

— Craig Silvey

“See, Batman is different. He's mortal. He's got a real life to risk. Superman just has to avoid Kryptonite. Big deal. Superman…

— Craig Silvey

“What kind of lousy world is this? Has it always been this way, or has the bottom fallen out of it in…

— Craig Silvey

“I bid you a Jew.”

— Craig Silvey

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

— Craig Silvey

“I'm excited but afraid. I long to turn and wedge myself through the horse's arse from which I've just fallen, to sit…

— Craig Silvey

How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble.…

— Craig Silvey

“Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won't settle until things are set right and…

— Craig Silvey

“Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds.”

— Craig Silvey

Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't…

— Craig Silvey

“And it happens like that. Like when you first realize that there is no such thing as magic. Or that nothing actually…

— Craig Silvey

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as…

— Craig Silvey

“I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like…

— Craig Silvey

“I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I’m a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries.”

— Craig Silvey

I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a…

— Craig Silvey

“...if it were anyone else, I would choose to step back and turn away right now. I would never bow my head…

— Craig Silvey

“My exit from the window is a little like a foal being born. It's a graceless and gangly drop, directly onto my…

— Craig Silvey

My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.

— Craig Silvey

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't…

— Craig Silvey

“...I thought that having someone to love, having someone love me back, made me a stronger person. But it was the opposite.…

— Craig Silvey

“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…

— Craig Silvey

“What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might…

— Craig Silvey

And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very…

— Craig Silvey