Untidy Towns Quotes

“This moment felt significant so I lay there and tried to breathe it in, to suck it down and store it. It felt important. I felt swelled with it.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“We're sitting there on the platform, not waiting for a train but the possibility of a train. Something to get us from here to there, wherever that might be.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“I let the night come in and swirl around and bring me lightness and positivity. I let the night suck out the failure and my embarrassment and shame over the same.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“We were so loud against the sounds of the bush. It was fantastic.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“People must not have realized how much they meant to me. Like Jen, I felt close to her in spite of the distance I’d created, and I wanted to tell her.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“The windows and doors will be boarded up and the plants allowed to creep over the building. Moss will grow over the platform and, for a while, youths will come and spray paint and smash what they can - I like to think that this is their way of mourning its loss.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“How people changing in just the smallest measure could turn out to be a lot over time. I was looking forward to seeing who I'd be.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“From a distance the leaves shimmered in the sky and created a mystical eucalyptus haze.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“Apparently that's just what I did: lots of leaving and not speaking”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“Both of us let the lie hang in the air.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns

“There was definitely a part of me that ached to fall in love, but I couldn't help thinking I had a hard little heart.”
― Kate O'Donnell, Untidy Towns