Steven Herrick quotes:

I tell him everything as we walk. Maybe so he won't be disappointed being born into a place like this.

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

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

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

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.

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

I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.

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

I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere.

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

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

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

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.

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

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

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