9 quotes
"It does you good to be tenants. It reminds you of your own true position in the world."
Cloudstreet (1991)
"Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else."
Cloudstreet (1991)
"Ambition, Rose. It squeezes us into corners and turns out ugly shapes."
Cloudstreet (1991)
His wife was a good woman, and he understood that. But he remembered what the minister at Margaret River used to say - the good are fierce.
Cloudstreet (1991)
"I only believe in one thing, Les," Sam solemnly uttered. "Hairy Hand of God, otherwise known as Lady Luck. Our Lady, if she's shinin that lamp on ya, she'll give you what you want."
Cloudstreet (1991)
Why was it that he didn't know a thing about the underlying nature of people, the shadows and shifts, the hungers and hopes that caused them to do the things they did?
Cloudstreet (1991)
Oriel looked at the potatoes in her hand and thought of the things she'd like to tell the spud growers of Australia about taking a little time, a little pride and a little care.
Cloudstreet (1991)
She held the needle to the light. It was a wonder how something sharp came down to nothing like that. She looked through the needle's eye. So that's the Kingdom of Heaven, she thought. So that's all there was.
Cloudstreet (1991)
Sometimes she couldn't think what jerrybuilt frame was holding her together. It wasn't willpower anymore. She'd gone past that lately. She only had will enough to make everything else work, these days. There was never enough left for her. She was like that blessed truck of Lester's, running on an empty sump.
Cloudstreet (1991)