31 Quotes by 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 before they’ve started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don’t even matter... I don’t know. Maybe they just get so used to it they don’t even notice. Maybe it’s like a creeping curse and the more you do it, the easier it gets. What’s amazing is that they think they’re fooling anybody.

I collect words and lock them away, stored like a hoard of gems.

I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I’ve just swallowed a glass of somebody’s urine and I’m recommending it.

I’d sneer and tell him he’s got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.