61 Quotes by Kate Grenville

Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would never see how everything worked together.

The self that had laughed and raised his glass and shouted out the words with the others seemed to him now to be foolishly, dangerously, disastrously innocent.

He hoped that all understanding might be as simple as a matter of scale. If a man had not a week, not a year, not even a lifetime – if he had millennia, aeons – all the seemingly erratic movements of heavenly bodies and earthly vicissitudes would turn out to have meaning. Some kinds of order were too vast for a human to know. But below the chaos of a single human life, you could trust that a cosmic breve was sounding.

I don’t think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great – just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.

Anyone can be lovely, but you are rare.

Violence had an enlivening effect. As long as someone else was the victim it made the blood pump, gave the world an edge of glamour.

Ain’t nothing in this world just for the taking... A man got to pay a fair price for taking... Matter of give a little, take a little.

He had seen God in the night sky long before he understood its patterns.

It was a long time since whe’s been young and it was unlikely that she’d ever been lovely. She stood like a man, square-on. Her breasts pushed out the old tee-shirt, but it was clear from the way she stood that she’d forgotten about breasts being sexy. Her breasts made bulges in her shirt, the same way her knees made bulges in her black track pants, that was all.