8 Quotes by Ellen Van Neerven

Our car was packed up like a real blackfella's car... All someone needed to do was give it a paint job proper way - dots and that.

This old woman can spin a yarn. She puts her whole body in it.

I did not tell my little brother I would take him away from it. That I would protect him, that I would stand up to her. It was not in my capacity.

Driving home I switch on the radio and one of those old Motown voices comes on and reaches my heart.

We decide we won't talk about the politics. What side we're on.

I've heard we all return to water sometime.

Living in an apartment block alone sometimes feels like my room could topple backwards off the building and no one would notice.

We decide we won’t talk about the politics. What side we’re on.