31 Quotes by Craig Silvey

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 I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

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

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.

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 caught them. The hard work’s done, they can’t escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?

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

And it happens like that. Like when you first realise that there is no such thing as magic.

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

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 is just your feelings holding you together.

Jasper Jones fell out of this world and nobody noticed... And they’ll notice now because something has been burned. Now they’ll look for Jasper Jones.