That’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives. Helen Garner Read Quote
Now, I – for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. Helen Garner Read Quote
I think some people wished I’d kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I’m doing it completely intellectually. Helen Garner Read Quote
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction… so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. Helen Garner Read Quote
At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. Helen Garner Read Quote
It’s very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it’s a kind of raging against what’s happening. Helen Garner Read Quote
