15 Quotes by Linda Collins

The response has been good, but lingerie is not a year-round demand. Seasonally we have good times. We have the numbers, we're just looking for ways to sustain it.

It is then in their hands to dispatch as they make their schedule.

Malcolm’s friend, Ishak, tells him to be strong. Be strong – it is also a saying used by New Zealand Maori who will urge, kia kaha. My husband repeats to himself, Be strong, as if trying it on for size. Yet he is finding it impossible to be strong. He realises that Ishak’s advice is that of a believer, one who sees a point to all this suffering. A superior being has willed it, and there is life after death. Malcolm admires that certainty, that belief. But he does not share it.

My dad – Victoria’s grandfather, “Poppa Jim”, as she called him – is forever waist-deep in the warm water of the harbour, holding a body.

For now, all I can deal with is kindness.

All these influences and factors on their own, are manageable, but when they come in an onslaught, they disturb the equilibrium of a household, shutting out the light, and letting the darkness in.