Steven Herrick Quotes

I'm alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.

I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.

Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life.

He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.

It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ...

I'm thinking about babies. Emma's baby. Jack and my baby. Growing in my mind, if not in my womb.

She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

People say the beach is the great equaliser
Who are they kidding?
Sit at Bondi and watch the boys flex
And the girls walk bolt upright
It looks like a nightmare episode of Baywatch.
The true equaliser is the mountain cold
And stacks of cold flung together
Maybe then we'd listen to what each other is saying
Instead of checking out the best bods.
And as I wrap another layer
Around my Size 10
I think of Jack's favourite saying:
"today's tan is tomorrow's cancer"
I walk outside
And whistle at the wind.

After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.

Cowards don't always hide. Sometimes, they're so gutless they need to stand out.

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.

I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.

So, we skipped Annabel, and discussed condoms. I said I liked the orange ones, and we ended our talk in laughter.

And I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.

He hands the page to his wife and looks across the room to Colleen's picture, listening to her absence, breathing deeply the air she can't share.

Emma says after I was born I cried for days. She said I'd never shut up which is funny really because Dad says I never shut up now so maybe that's what happens, you get born and act the same your whole life.

Wandering from room to room discovering another side to the moon.

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.

He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.

I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

I'm dreaming of a month of Sundays.