Only Ever Always Quotes

“I always listen to everything you say. You have very authoritative hair.”
― Penni Russon, Only Ever Always

“In the period of my life that Fred and I had this conversation I was writing a thesis at Melbourne University as part of a masters in creative writing, entitled Melancholy Ever After, about the effect of melancholy on narrative structure in fairy tales.”
― Penni Russon, Only Ever Always

“Dolores seems to dwell only just inside language, she makes sentences the way a potter works clay, squashing them any which way into shapes that please her.”
― Penni Russon, Only Ever Always

“Clara, you ask too much. You are always asking for too much, even when you’re not asking for anything.”
― Penni Russon, Only Ever Always

“But you are not sure it is possible to outgrow the things that have built you from nothing into something.”
― Penni Russon, Only Ever Always