The Great Fire Quotes

“My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."

Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire

“Reverie by the open window in the sweet futility of a mild evening was yet to strike the Australian male as a requirement. (There would be the question of fly screens, for one thing.)”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire

“They walked off on the earthy path, laughing not quite naturally, for they could hardly help being pleased by the momentary attention of descending passengers and by their own almost meritorious youth.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire

“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was; to shed assumptions, even certainties.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire