The Spare Room Quotes

“I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.”
― Helen Garner, The Spare Room

“Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love.”
― Helen Garner, The Spare Room

“I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me.”
― Helen Garner, The Spare Room

“anything to do with palliative.” “Why,” I said dully”
― Helen Garner, The Spare Room