5 Quotes by Penni Russon

Dolores seems to dwell only just inside language, she makes sentences the way a potter works clay, squashing them any which way into shapes that please her.

I always listen to everything you say. You have very authoritative hair.

In the period of my life that Fred and I had this conversation I was writing a thesis at Melbourne University as part of a masters in creative writing, entitled Melancholy Ever After, about the effect of melancholy on narrative structure in fairy tales.

But you are not sure it is possible to outgrow the things that have built you from nothing into something.

Clara, you ask too much. You are always asking for too much, even when you’re not asking for anything.