Fighting Ruben Wolfe Quotes

• Ruben

  I think I like your money better than mine.
• Cameron

  It's Sarah spewing her hole in the bathroom.
• Cameron


  Rube stands and his eyes tread all over the guy.
• Ruben

  We've gotta lift. Gotta get our self-bloody-respect back.
• Cameron


  Rube's a winner because he wants to beat the loser out of himself.
• Cameron

  It's funny how truth and lies can come in the same clothes.
• Mrs Wolfe

  You fellas ought to be looking after each other.
• Ruben

  You'd tell people that he's your boy and he keeps fighting because that's the way you brought him up.
• I see a dead starling as we walk
• It's next to a beer bottle in the gutter
• “That’s what Sarah’s eyes look like. The colour of defeat chokes her pupils”
• “Dad, feeding burnt sausage into his mouth but tasting unemployment”
• Things the narrator cares about

  • You
  • Mum
  • Dad
  • Steve
  • Sarah
  • Miffy
• The rest of the world means nothing to the narrator
• They walk to a trashed, scabby shop on Elizabeth Street that closed down years ago
• The narrator sees a dead starling next to a beer bottle in the gutter, both are empty of soul
• Sarah's eyes look like the colour of defeat chokes her pupils
• Sarah will just carry on like all of us
• Dad is feeding burnt sausage into his mouth but tasting unemployment
• They are small and their house is small on their small suburban street
• Most people think that Rube and the narrator are kind of hoodlums
• The narrator wishes he was Fighting Ruben Wolfe and not the Underdog
• A fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it
• Rube is a winner because he wants to beat the loser out of himself
• Steve knows he's a winner, but Rube is still trying to prove it to himself
• Rube hasn't been in a real fight yet
• A fights worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win. It's the ones in between that test you