Craig Silvey Quotes

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• Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.
• Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it.…
• Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of…
• And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it…
• Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.
• You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it…
• I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already…
• Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what…
• Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't…
• I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more…
• How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my…
• Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.
• My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.

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