
The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it. —
S.A. Tawks

The situation was saved;
Brisbane was going to tell a story. —
Francis Marion Crawford

I might grow old in
Brisbane, but I would never grow up. —
David Malouf

It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked. —
S.A. Tawks

I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself. —
S.A. Tawks

Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone. —
S.A. Tawks

At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland. —
S.A. Tawks

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. —
Arthur Brisbane

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. —
Arthur Brisbane

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands. —
S.A. Tawks

People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough. —
S.A. Tawks

Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people. —
S.A. Tawks

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care. —
S.A. Tawks

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again. —
S.A. Tawks

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting. —
S.A. Tawks

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards. —
S.A. Tawks

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves. —
S.A. Tawks

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could. —
S.A. Tawks

After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep. —
S.A. Tawks

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers Sam, Linger —
Maggie Stiefvater

Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented. —
S.A. Tawks

My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan. —
S.A. Tawks

I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline.
Brisbane is the man for me. —
Deanna Raybourn

Some people clean the fridge to avoid studying. I go to
Brisbane. —
Melina Marchetta

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges. —
S.A. Tawks

Where's your sense of misadventure? —
S.A. Tawks

Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me. —
S.A. Tawks

Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old. —
S.A. Tawks

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in. —
Arthur Brisbane

Hang your idea on a peg that all can read. —
Arthur Brisbane

Holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go. —
Maggie Stiefvater

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real. —
S.A. Tawks

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. —
Arthur Brisbane

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are. —
Maggie Stiefvater

Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it. —
S.A. Tawks

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in
Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. —
Robyn Davidson

Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me. —
S.A. Tawks

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words. —
Arthur Brisbane

I wasn't pissed off; I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created. —
S.A. Tawks

Grace," I said, very softly. "Say something."
Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me. —
Maggie Stiefvater

They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism. —
S.A. Tawks

You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances. —
S.A. Tawks

I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me. —
S.A. Tawks

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded. —
S.A. Tawks

My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble. —
S.A. Tawks

We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations. —
S.A. Tawks

Your days are only important if you decide to make them important. —
S.A. Tawks

Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down. —
S.A. Tawks

The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you. —
S.A. Tawks

It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making. —
S.A. Tawks

Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives. —
S.A. Tawks

I'm not looking for self-control. —
Maggie Stiefvater

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment. —
Arthur Brisbane

What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that? —
S.A. Tawks

I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment. —
S.A. Tawks

It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something. —
S.A. Tawks

Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts. —
S.A. Tawks

They have different accents in America "
Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me. —
Deanna Raybourn

He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too. —
S.A. Tawks

But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times. —
S.A. Tawks

It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up. —
S.A. Tawks

Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton. —
S.A. Tawks

You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach. —
S.A. Tawks

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think. —
Arthur Brisbane

Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos. —
S.A. Tawks

They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money. —
S.A. Tawks

Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure. —
S.A. Tawks

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do? —
S.A. Tawks

It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck. —
S.A. Tawks

Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate. —
S.A. Tawks

It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun. —
S.A. Tawks

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. —
Arthur Brisbane

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror. —
Arthur Brisbane

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. —
Arthur Brisbane