“…as if, one lover gone, I was opening up for an immediate replacement. Smack habit, love habit – what’s the difference? They can both kill you. For the bus journey I fell in love with a woman who smiled at me. The motion of the bus made her thick mop of fair curls tremble. We talked about desperados. ‘I am fatally attracted to them’, I said. ‘In fact, I probably am one’.”

− Helen Garner −