Christos Tsiolkas Quotes

• 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

  Country, Song, Play

  Christos Tsiolkas (1995). “Loaded”, Random House Australia

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• Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

  Christos Tsiolkas

  Cities, Crowds, Aliens

  Christos Tsiolkas (2014). “Barracuda”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

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