18 Quotes by Trent Dalton

See, that's called perspective, Eli. A bee sting smarts like a bitch until someone clubs you with a cricket bat.

I'm not gonna kill myself. And we love him very much, which is only half as much as he loves us.

To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli.

What's with you and men being good?''Never met a good one, that's all,' he says. 'Adult men, Tink. Most fucked-up creatures on the planet. Don't ever trust 'em'.

Adult men. Fucking adult men. Nutters, all of them. Can’t be trusted. Fucking sickos. Freaks. Killers. What was this man’s road to becoming Batman on a side street of inner-city Brisbane? How much good was in him? How much bad? Who was his father? What did his father do? What did his father not do? In what ways did other adult men fuck his life up?

Most things people say don't need to be said.

Don't worry. A man can have many best friends and none any more or less best than the other.

Maybe we'd all be much more effective communicators if we all shut up more.

Every day of your life has been leading up to tomorrow. But of course every day of your life led up to today.