The Story Thief Quotes

“Sharing the lessons that it had taken me a lifetime to learn, I would tell her that everyone has a right to tell a story, any story – that in the telling, or the retelling, the story becomes our own.”
― Kyra Geddes, The Story Thief

“If I timed it just right and if the clouds kept their distance that day, the sunlight would hit the chapel’s stained-glass windows and cast a rainbow at my feet. Squinting and tilting my head to one side, then the other, it
was easy to imagine myself disappearing into that rainbow.”
― Kyra Geddes, The Story Thief

“Though small in scale, I now saw that this canvas was large enough to hold my own grief.”
― Kyra Geddes, The Story Thief

“Epigraph: ‘Women have a different history. Someone ought to write it down. We’re not sheep or shadows, or silly saints the way Mr Lawson would have. There is more to us. More to me than any of them have written,
if it comes to that.’ Barbara Jefferis, 'The Drover's Wife' (1980)”
― Kyra Geddes, The Story Thief

“Epigraph: ‘No Australian who has wrestled with the ardours and subtleties of resolving this continent in terms of literature will discount Henry Lawson.’ Miles Franklin, 1942.”
― Kyra Geddes, The Story Thief

“That’s a good lesson for you right there, Lillian. Don’t
ever let a man tell you what to do, not even your own husband.”
― Kyra Geddes, The Story Thief

“I simply could not understand why so many people refused to read Australian books or cringed at the mention of familiar settings and events. Why were they so convinced life was superior elsewhere? Why shouldn’t Australia presume to possess her own culture, instead of just a favourable climate?”
― Kyra Geddes, The Story Thief