Eyrie Quotes

“He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“Thinks the sun shines out yer clacker.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“You look great, he said. Oh, get fucked, she said, grinning.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“I meant to slip away, he said, busking it now.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“Keely's pulse quickened. A stab of apprehension. He was the same at any live performance, suddenly anxious for the players. So stupid; these people were professional muscicians. But the way his throat narrowed they could have all been kds at a school recital. His kids.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“He'd worn himself ragged with second-guessing until his head felt like a tinful of bees.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“You've been busy, he said.
Want something done, ask a busy person.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“Here, said the nuggety bald fixture. You look dry as a camel’s cookie.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he’d waste”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“Every vegetable, every bit of protein on the list had a provenance more complex than a minor Rembrandt.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie

“Glamour-hounds and donor-hogs they may be but he loved them.”
― Tim Winton, Eyrie