English Quotes

• ’Odette Brown rose with the sun, as she did each morning.’ (Page 1)
• ‘Odette had no choice but to engage in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the welfare authorities.’ (Page 4).
• ’Oh my people are still here, son. A few of us are above ground, the rest are below it. We’ve always been here and we’re going no place.’ (Page 15).
• ‘Deane carried the blood of so many Aboriginal people on its hands it could never be scrubbed away, not from the man himself or the town that carried his name.’ (Page 2).
• ‘Them whitefellas, they can never touch the stars, no matter how clever they think they are.’ (Page 85).
• ‘I don’t take charity from anyone. I never have.’ (Page 16).
• ‘Each night before Odette fell asleep, she asked the old people for help, that she would not lose Sissy as well.’ (Page 42).