The Burning Island Quotes

“As we neared, the great mass of Wilson’s Promontory stretched southward out of the coast on our right, and the island drew threads of cloud from the low sky and teased them into mirages: the island was burning, the island was cut from coal or obsidian; the island was not there at all.”
― Jock Serong, The Burning Island

“One such man, an islander named Drew, strode into a Launceston rooming house looking—and here Srinivas suddenly became awkward—for the services of a good woman. I nearly laughed: from all I’d heard, no one would seek a good woman in Launceston.”
― Jock Serong, The Burning Island

“The early morning had a faint drizzle in it. Tiny specks, a day that meant itself to be fine but had somehow leaked.”
― Jock Serong, The Burning Island