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Sometimes I wish I was a guy. Life’s so much easier for them.
Cath Crowley
Love and romance are things worth waiting for.
Cath Crowley
Were you in love with Emma?" I ask."I was hard-core obsessed," he says without thinking about it. "Not in love." "What's the difference?"He's about to throw a stone at ta yard light but stops. "Prison," he says, and puts the stone in his pocket.
Cath Crowley
That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.
Cath Crowley
I didn’t say you weren’t smart. I said you were stupid.”“I guess I’m too dumb to see the difference.
Cath Crowley
Dad and I leave town in the early dark. It's the second Sunday of the holidays, and we pack up the old blue car with enough clothes for summer and hit the road. It's so early he's wiping hills of sand piled in the corners of his eyes. I wipe a few tears from mine. Tears don't pile, though. They grip and cling and slide in salty trails that I taste until the edge of the city.
Cath Crowley
Have you ever done something that you were really ashamed of? I mean somehing so bad you felt sick just thinking about it?''Everyone has. Why, what'd you do?''I didn't say goodbye to Mum.''That's not so bad.''Did you say goodbye to your mum before she left?' I'd never asked Martin about this before. I didn't want to hear the answer.'She left before I had a chance.''Oh.''That's what I like about you, Faltrain.You always know just what to say.
Cath Crowley
You can't drive them around in the getaway van.' 'How about we don't call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.' 'So what should we call it?' 'How about the van?' 'It doesn't change what it is and that it's a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it.
Cath Crowley
Tonight’s going to be one of those things that seem to last forever.
Cath Crowley
Do many guys ask you out twice?""Only the ones with balls.
Cath Crowley
I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.
Cath Crowley
Don't go confusing stupidity with guts.
Cath Crowley
I took the money and passed the box across the counter and said politely, ‘Your choice of colourreally lacks style.’ I smiled and Beth laughed and the guy asked to see my manager.I got Bert and he leant over the box and looked at the paint and said, ‘Ed was being polite. Yourchoice of colour is shit.
Cath Crowley
Why do want to find him so bad?’ I ask after a while, but she’s not listening. I watch her a bitlonger. ‘Why do you want to find him so bad?’ I ask again.She blinks and comes out of her dream. She flicks the band on her wrist. ‘I just do.’ - Ed Skye
Cath Crowley
Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.
Cath Crowley
ALYCE: 'Gracie's got brown hair, like me. She's about the same height, too. People notice her. I think it's her voice. It's always louder than you expect and covered with laughter.I was surprised when she said she didn't want to work with me. I don't know Gracie very well, but I remember once in Year 3 she gave me an invitation to her party. She spelt my name right. Everyone always spells it with an 'i', even the teachers. Ever since then I thought she would be nice. I never thought she'd look at me like I was nothing.
Cath Crowley
It’s when I’m around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now
Cath Crowley
You’re not like other girls, you know that, right?’ Ed asks.‘I’ve been aware of the problem,’ I tell him.
Cath Crowley
Now you're dead, and I'm buried.
Cath Crowley
If my like for you was a footy crowd, you'd be deaf cos of the roar.And if my like for you were a boxer, there'd be a dead guy lying on the floor.And if my like for you were sugar, you'd lose your teeth before you were twenty. And if my like for you was money, let's just say you'd be spending plenty.
Cath Crowley
words do matter. They’re not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn’t start revolutions and they wouldn’t change history and they wouldn’t be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn’t listen to songs,
Cath Crowley
She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.
Cath Crowley
My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.
Cath Crowley
I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.
Cath Crowley
as if all the years haven't dulled that moment. She's staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son.
Cath Crowley
Being different is the only way to live
Cath Crowley