4 Quotes by Thea Astley

He was hurling words at his shrinking wife like clods or bricks and she was not dodging but receiving them like a willing saint, enduring abuse like a terrible balm.

The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

This morning, that morning, was honeycombed with personal restlessness. Evening swells up in lavender, blue, black in these parts, the twenty-thousand-fathom sea of acceptance and a sort of timeless soothing, only to be worried out of its mind by a scratch-rash epidemic of star-white.