“You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.” PeopleWantNeedsLongHardStuffFictionDoubtWillingTruth IsStrangerStranger Than FictionTripe Author:Craig Silvey
“Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveWellsKindMatterStoriesFeelingsLostFearLinesPrayerSpaceLonelyBiggerCastingOuter SpaceLonely Feeling Author:Craig Silvey
“I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.” PeopleKnowsWorldThis World Book:Jasper Jones Source: Jasper Jones
“Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.” PeopleFeelsWellsMeanSelfSometimesPainTogetherKnowingSadnessShareConsequenceSorryDebtHolesPityPulseSelf PityRippleMisdeeds Author:Craig Silvey
