Top 5 Michelle de Kretser Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Tourists see invisible things. Sometimes their point of view eluded him. By now, he was often the first in the group to raise his camera: to a roadside shrine or a sunset, to a buffalo plowing a paddy, ribs curved like a boat. But why were the others laughing at a billboard advertising Perlwite soap? What was fascinating about two village women grinding chilies on a stone? The dust of familiarity still lay in patches on the scenes through which he moved.”

— Michelle de Kretser

2. “It was one of those golden July afternoons stolen from spring, and they sat outside in T-shirts drinking beer.”

— Michelle de Kretser

3. “The past was not always past enough here. It was like living in a house acquired for its clean angles and gleaming appliances, and discovering a bricked-up foor at which, faint but insistent, the sound of knocking could be heard.”

— Michelle de Kretser

4. “Predictably, the national broadcaster – a viper’s nest of socialists, tree-huggers and ugly, barren females – had seized on the survey, exhuming one of its bleeding-heart ideologues to moan about funding cuts to education.”

— Michelle de Kretser

5. “All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed, and weeks, and no one said her name.”

— Michelle de Kretser

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