Tim Winton: Frases em inglês
“I knew I'd failed a test whose rules I didn't yet understand.”
Fonte: Breath (2008), Ch.18 - p.90
“I suspect I only really liked her because she liked me first.”
Fonte: Breath (2008), Ch.18 - p.89
Part III, Ch.5 - p.250
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
“I knew from hunting food the thing you need most of isn't water or ammo, it's patience.”
Part III, Ch.5 - p.248
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
Part III, Ch.4 - p.238, 239
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
Part III, Ch.3 - p.233
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
Part III, Ch.1 - p.199
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
Part II, Ch.1 - p.134
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
"Yeah," I said.
Part II, Ch.1 - p.132
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
“And you know someone's special when you never get enough of them.”
Part I, Ch.9 - p.83
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
“I didn't even know why I liked her. She was just there. I was used to her.”
Part I, Ch.9 - p.77
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
Part I, Ch.6 - p.43
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
“Honestly, sometimes you'd rather be a dog. A mutt doesn't torture itself with thinking.”
Part I, Ch.5 - p.37
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
“Tomorrow'll be a new day. Which is really the same miserable fucking day all over again.”
Part I, Ch.2 - p.9 [Page numbers per the Picador 2018 UK paperback.]
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)
“I should have known earlier to always live like that.”
Fonte: Novels, In the Winter Dark (1988), Ch.11 - p.109
“It does you good to be tenants. It reminds you of your own true position in the world.”
Part 10, section 15 - p.416
Novels, Cloudstreet (1991)
“Ambition, Rose. It squeezes us into corners and turns out ugly shapes.”
Part 8, section 2 - p.293
Novels, Cloudstreet (1991)
“You spend your whole life trying to work out where you fit.”
Fonte: Novels, That Eye, the Sky (1986), Ch.4 - p.25
“It only takes one thing to make you unhappy.”
Fonte: Novels, That Eye, the Sky (1986), Ch.2 - p.11 [Page numbers per the Penguin Books Australia 1987 paperback edition.]
“Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else.”
Part 5, section 19 - p.175
Novels, Cloudstreet (1991)
“The past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.”
Short story, 'Aquifer' - p.53
Short stories, The Turning (2004)
“All the big things hurt, the things you remember. If it doesn't hurt it's not important.”
Short story, 'Abbreviation' - p.26
Short stories, The Turning (2004)
“It's a survival thing, making yourself a small target.”
Short story, 'Big World' - p.10 [Page numbers per the 2006 UK paperback.]
Short stories, The Turning (2004)