Dinner with the Schnabels Quotes

“Simon was a self-identified Australian male (he/him), so it was legislated that he should stand beside Sonny while he was cooking meat on the barbecue. The leave-the-steak-alone-and-only-turn-it-once method had been passed down from Simon's grandfather to Simon's father to Simon himself as though it were a Stradivarius, but Sonny had no respect for tradition or Simon's Larsen pride.”
― Toni Jordan, Dinner with the Schnabels

“As soon as Mia was out of sight, Gloria’s smile shrivelled. She slammed the passenger door and raised her sunglasses to sit on her head. Then she looked across the bonnet of the ute through the windscreen, right into Simon’s eyes. The paint of the bonnet started to bubble and the windscreen glass began to soften and melt.”
― Toni Jordan, Dinner with the Schnabels

“Simon didn’t believe in psychics but in the first few years after meeting Gloria, he did wonder. She showed remarkable accuracy about future events, it couldn’t be denied. Now he thought that her gift wasn’t prognostication, it was command. The very universe itself was nervous about going against her wishes.”
― Toni Jordan, Dinner with the Schnabels