Darkness, Be My Friend Quotes
"Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young."
"It’s the sweetness of the air, the sweet coolness."
"I’ll only stop changing my mind when I’m dead. And maybe not even then."
"If you want a coffee there’s a canteen at the end of the fibrolite building. But be back in forty-five, OK?"
"The day dragged on. I was anxious to get down into Hell."
"That’s the only time I’d heard of anyone walking from our properties into Wirrawee, or vice versa."
"I wondered why he wasn’t giving this lecture to the others."
"It’s just for an hour or two. Don’t be too angry with me."
"I walked like a cat down the street towards the dark spot."
"Whatever. I do know that my senses were very alert."
"That’s your only chance. Not a move. Still and silent."
"I understand that I screamed because of all the stuff we’d been through."
"And there’s nothing else I need to know about it, is there? Is there?"
"I felt very bitter at the way I’d betrayed myself."
"I could understand that, too. If she was going to drop me at the bottom of the Razor’s Edge."
"It was a long way from our world too, where the biggest question for couples was whether to put your tongue in on the first date."
"We watched cartoons instead of the ‘ABC News’. And now we were paying the price."
"I felt a sudden pang of longing to see Lee, to touch him and hold his hand."
"Miraculously we all had our packs, but they slowed us down like they always did."
"We were stuffed. If we’d had rifles I think we would have stopped right there and made a stand."
"Normally lighting a fire at night, in dewy grass, would be hard, but this had been a hot dry night, and the wind was getting up to quite a blast."
"A bushfire with the wind behind it, in dry grass or scrub, it moves like a semitrailer on heat."
"And to be burnt to death, what a terrible, terrible thing. I had nightmares about being burnt to death."
"I hadn’t wanted them to get burnt. I just wanted to put a barrier between us and them."
"We could hear the wailing of sirens in the distance now. Somehow I hadn’t expected that."
"We hurried off down the dirt road, keeping low and leaving a big gap between each person."
"As dark slowly surrounded the school we started to feel a little safer."
"So as far as saving something from the wreckage, the boys’ plan did have a lot of attractions."
"The petrol plan actually appealed to me more because it was kind of lateral thinking or whatever they call it."
"I regretted that comment the moment I’d said it, of course."
"There might be burglar alarms, although the ones at school hadn’t worked."
"I just wanted to get back to New Zealand and have my nervous breakdown."
"We soon found the best way: put a blanket over it then tap it with something hard, like a hammer."
"I didn’t really want to talk about fuel, of course, and I assumed neither did he."
"Sometimes I think there’s a poem for everything."
"I was scrabbling around trying to get my hands on the rifle again because I’d lost it in the last second of the crash."
"I realised it was because of the boy in New Zealand and the man who’d lived in this house."