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Top 25 Craig Silvey Quotes (2025 Update)

Craig Silvey Quote: “You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don’t want to doubt you either. It’s too hard.”

1. “You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don’t want to doubt you either. It’s too hard.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “I don’t understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”

2. “I don’t understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.”

3. “My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it’s better if you hold onto something so hard you can’t give it up.”

4. “Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it’s better if you hold onto something so hard you can’t give it up.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don’t.”

5. “Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don’t.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “Jasper Jones fell out of this world and nobody noticed... And they’ll notice now because something has been burned. Now they’ll look for Jasper Jones.”

6. “Jasper Jones fell out of this world and nobody noticed... And they’ll notice now because something has been burned. Now they’ll look for Jasper Jones.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “Because a girl goes missing in this town and it’s Jasper Jones who is held and threatened and belted for days, but somehow those monsters will arouse no suspicion.”

7. “Because a girl goes missing in this town and it’s Jasper Jones who is held and threatened and belted for days, but somehow those monsters will arouse no suspicion.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “I mean, I know people have always bin afraid of me. Kids specially, but old people too. Wary. They reckon I’m just half an animal with half a vote. That I’m no good. And I always used to think, why? They don’t even know me. Nobody does. It never made sense. But then I realized, that’s exactly why. That’s all it is. It’s so stupid, Charlie. But it means I don’t hate them anymore.”

8. “I mean, I know people have always bin afraid of me. Kids specially, but old people too. Wary. They reckon I’m just half an animal with half a vote. That I’m no good. And I always used to think, why? They don’t even know me. Nobody does. It never made sense. But then I realized, that’s exactly why. That’s all it is. It’s so stupid, Charlie. But it means I don’t hate them anymore.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they’re in a barrel, you’ve already caught them. The hard work’s done, they can’t escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?”

9. “I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they’re in a barrel, you’ve already caught them. The hard work’s done, they can’t escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “And it happens like that. Like when you first realise that there is no such thing as magic.”

10. “And it happens like that. Like when you first realise that there is no such thing as magic.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “Batman doesn’t have any superpowers. He’s not superhuman. He’s not super. So therefore he can’t be a superhero.”

11. “Batman doesn’t have any superpowers. He’s not superhuman. He’s not super. So therefore he can’t be a superhero.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds.”

12. “Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds.”

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Craig Silvey Quote: “See, most people you meet, they’ll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they’re lying even before they’ve started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don’t even matter.”

13. “See, most people you meet, they’ll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they’re lying even before they’ve started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don’t even matter.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “See, most people you meet, they’ll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they’re lying even before they’ve started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don’t even matter... I don’t know. Maybe they just get so used to it they don’t even notice. Maybe it’s like a creeping curse and the more you do it, the easier it gets. What’s amazing is that they think they’re fooling anybody.”

14. “See, most people you meet, they’ll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they’re lying even before they’ve started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don’t even matter... I don’t know. Maybe they just get so used to it they don’t even notice. Maybe it’s like a creeping curse and the more you do it, the easier it gets. What’s amazing is that they think they’re fooling anybody.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “I collect words and lock them away, stored like a hoard of gems.”

15. “I collect words and lock them away, stored like a hoard of gems.”

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Craig Silvey Quote: “And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it’s very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together.”

16. “And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it’s very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I’ve just swallowed a glass of somebody’s urine and I’m recommending it.”

17. “I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I’ve just swallowed a glass of somebody’s urine and I’m recommending it.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “I’d sneer and tell him he’s got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.”

18. “I’d sneer and tell him he’s got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “The less you know, the further away you are, the easier it is to shrug and tut and move on. And so Corrigan remains a town of barnacles. A cluster of hard shells that suck themselves stuck and clench themselves shut and choose not to know about dying.”

19. “The less you know, the further away you are, the easier it is to shrug and tut and move on. And so Corrigan remains a town of barnacles. A cluster of hard shells that suck themselves stuck and clench themselves shut and choose not to know about dying.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “Everyone deserves to walk their own path.”

20. “Everyone deserves to walk their own path.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “See, everyone here’s afraid of something and nuthin. This town, that’s how they live, and they don’t even know it. They stick to what they know, what they bin told. They don’t unnerstand that it’s just a choice you make.”

21. “See, everyone here’s afraid of something and nuthin. This town, that’s how they live, and they don’t even know it. They stick to what they know, what they bin told. They don’t unnerstand that it’s just a choice you make.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “It’s better to shut up and appear stupid than open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

22. “It’s better to shut up and appear stupid than open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “I wasn’t cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn’t scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn’t feel much of anything.”

23. “I wasn’t cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn’t scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn’t feel much of anything.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “I forgot what it felt like to be young.”

24. “I forgot what it felt like to be young.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “Cricket is the most repetitive enterprise in history.”

25. “Cricket is the most repetitive enterprise in history.”

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Craig Silvey Quote: “That’s what you do, right? When you’re readin. You’re seeing what it’s like for other people.”

26. “That’s what you do, right? When you’re readin. You’re seeing what it’s like for other people.”

— Craig Silvey

Craig Silvey Quote: “Find out who you are, and live that life.”

27. “Find out who you are, and live that life.”

— Craig Silvey

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