Fly Away Peter Quotes

“So many things were new. Everything changed. The past would not hold and could not be held.”
― David Malouf, Fly Away Peter

“A life wasn't for anything. It simply was.”
― David Malouf, Fly Away Peter

“Enemies, like friends, told you who you were.”
― David Malouf, Fly Away Peter

“the great all-embracing sound that rose from the dazzling earth, a layered music, dense but deeply flowing, that was clippered insects rubbing their legs together, bird-notes, grass-stems chaffing and fretting in the breeze.”
― David Malouf, Fly Away Peter

“That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature. To set anything above it, birth, position, talent even, was to deny to all but a few among the infinite millions what was common and real, and what was also, in the end, most moving. A life wasn't for anything. It simply was.”
― David Malouf, Fly Away Peter

“I tell yer, mate, in this world you've got t' work round the edge of things, the law, the rules. Creep up from behind. The straight way through never got a man nowhere.”
― David Malouf, Fly Away Peter