“God, he loved being a bloke. He loved it so much. He wouldn't be a woman for all the money in the world.”

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to be chased, clueless with a different mindset and a bit of effort they could be the predators.”

“Perhaps you don't have to do anything wrong for someone to reject you.”

“No one liked to get too upset in WA's capital, a genuine hindrance to Perth forging its own identity. Less than two hundred years old, its unremarkable history and unceasing niceness had combined to apparently stupify its populace. Perth was at least two hours behind the Eastern states but everyone knew it was really dragging behind by years.”

“Perthites were like the Swan River's jellyfish - small pink blobs adrift in a warm environment.”

“Are you ready to try to tame the Wrath?”

“Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather see injected with bleach.”