Stories Quotes

“I want to be the one doing the looking. I have developed a whole social demeanour with the aim of deflecting attention from my appearance, I actively dislike being looked at.”
― Helen Garner, Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

“... this is love. Everything is spoken, nothing is said.”
― Helen Garner, Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

“We've been trained in your tradition,' said Natalie. 'We're honorary men.”
― Helen Garner, Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

“Maybe that's what beauty is: loving being looked at. The beautiful are greedy.”
― Helen Garner, Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

“... have you ever watched someone you know front their own reflection in a mirror? ... You see a stiffening, a closing, a dimming; you see them pull on their own idea of themselves, the caricature that will soften and melt away the minute they think of something other than the enemy before them.”
― Helen Garner, Stories: The Collected Short Fiction