More from Helen Garner

  1. 'Course I care. I always care. But there's no point in making a song and dance about it, like that night he stayed here. Know something? Th…
  2. Her handwriting in these pencilled jottings, made forty-five years ago, is exactly as it is today: this makes me suspect, when I am not wit…
  3. 'That,' I said, 'would be a blessing. There are so many things I'd like to forget I hardly know what would be left standing, if I ever got …
  4. 'In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'
  5. On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along th…
  6. Revolution begins in the kitchen.
  7. 'It's rather like a Poe story, isn't it,' said Patrick luxuriously, unfocusing his eyes. 'A person sees the chance of a better life passing…
  8. And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvr…

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