Dirt Music Quotes

“Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity.”
― Tim Winton, Dirt Music

“You can hide in someone else's rage - it blinds them”
― tim winton, Dirt Music

“This land looks dreamt, willed, potent.”
― Tim Winton, Dirt Music

“Me? I belong to Jesus Christ. Like it or not. They wet you and get you. Anyway. No other bastard will have me.”
― Tim Winton, Dirt Music

“wash the black mud from my hands. On a light given off by the grave I kneel in the quick of the moon At the heart of a distant forest And hold in my arms a child Of water, water, water.”
― Tim Winton, Dirt Music

“is bitter. She declaims into his face: And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”
― Tim Winton, Dirt Music

“Fox grins. Go strides to the rear of the Ford. His manner never alters. The Vietnamese has purposeful intensity down pat.”
― Tim Winton, Dirt Music