One Day I'll Remember This Quotes

“The first time I ever got into bed with a girl, starkers,’ says V, ‘I was staggered by the softness. I was absolutely staggered.’ I thought about the three women I’ve been in bed with. The astounding softness of their mouths and skin. I decide not to say, ‘I know exactly what you mean.”
― Helen Garner, One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995

“Kookaburras burst out in choruses from the gully. A full moon rises. P surveys it from the veranda couch, sitting yoga-style with her elbows propped gracefully on her knees. I have known her so long that I don’t know any more where I end and she begins. I have been friends with her more than half my life on earth.”
― Helen Garner, One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995

“P is very exercised domestically by what you me are minor matters: which kitchen table? She ways this possibility against that, trotting from one room to another or standing in a thoughtful posture, finger against cheek. I adopt a good-humoured but blanked-out patience, like a man in a Maupassant short story with a garrulous wife whom he nonetheless loves. P is adorable, but faithful, with a delicacy that I completely lack.”
― Helen Garner, One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995