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Top 15 Christos Tsiolkas Quotes (2025 Update)

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.”

1. “Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “But just because no-one sang the story, no-one wrote the book, no-one filmed it, that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”

2. “But just because no-one sang the story, no-one wrote the book, no-one filmed it, that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.”

3. “She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.”

4. “Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.”

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Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is there in every important relationship in our lives: with parents, siblings, lovers, our closest friends. I have always wanted to be faithful to that truth.”

5. “The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is there in every important relationship in our lives: with parents, siblings, lovers, our closest friends. I have always wanted to be faithful to that truth.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “Once you lose someone’s respect it is the hardest thing to win back.”

6. “Once you lose someone’s respect it is the hardest thing to win back.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “In the three minutes it takes the song to play I’m caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.”

7. “In the three minutes it takes the song to play I’m caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.”

8. “In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there’s a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.”

9. “Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there’s a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “She moved in her world in slow motion. The little pills she took kept her safe, her eyes were empty of colour, of light. Every couple of years Joe’s father would take his wife to Greece, make a trek to a valley where the Virgin was said to appear. They would drink the holy water, cross themselves, and still the woman would search through her bag to get to the little pills that kept her sane. Sanity is a chemical reaction.”

10. “She moved in her world in slow motion. The little pills she took kept her safe, her eyes were empty of colour, of light. Every couple of years Joe’s father would take his wife to Greece, make a trek to a valley where the Virgin was said to appear. They would drink the holy water, cross themselves, and still the woman would search through her bag to get to the little pills that kept her sane. Sanity is a chemical reaction.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.”

11. “I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “Regrets, of course; only an imbecile did not have regrets. Regrets, some shame, a little guilt. But they had all done the best they could, they had raised their children well, educated them, housed them, made them safe and secure. They had all been good people. Death was never welcome but He always came. It was only to be truly lamented when He took the young, those neither prepared nor deserving of it. Then Death was cruel. Manolis watched the foam rise in the briki and he turned off the flame.”

12. “Regrets, of course; only an imbecile did not have regrets. Regrets, some shame, a little guilt. But they had all done the best they could, they had raised their children well, educated them, housed them, made them safe and secure. They had all been good people. Death was never welcome but He always came. It was only to be truly lamented when He took the young, those neither prepared nor deserving of it. Then Death was cruel. Manolis watched the foam rise in the briki and he turned off the flame.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “He imagined forgiveness was like flying, that it made you soar. He imagined that it looked like an eagle, a silver bolt in the sky, that it was pure light.”

13. “He imagined forgiveness was like flying, that it made you soar. He imagined that it looked like an eagle, a silver bolt in the sky, that it was pure light.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “Discomfort is sometimes what is most precious to me about great art.”

14. “Discomfort is sometimes what is most precious to me about great art.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.”

15. “I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “Everything is fair in love and art.”

16. “Everything is fair in love and art.”

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Christos Tsiolkas Quote: “Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.”

17. “Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.”

— Christos Tsiolkas

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