5 Quotes & Sayings By Joanna Walsh

Joanna Walsh is a bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction. She writes across a wide range of genres, including crime, mystery, romance, and suspense. Her books have been translated into numerous languages worldwide. Joanna's first book was published in 2011 Read more

Her debut novel, "Obsidian," was a finalist for the 2011 International Thriller Writers Best First Novel Award. In 2012 she was awarded the Australian Crime Writer's Association's inaugural Janet Heidinger Media Prize, for her body of work as an author and journalist. In 2013 she published a memoir about growing up in a dysfunctional family under the title "The Devil I Know."

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There is something about my face in the mirrors that catch it. Even at a distance it will never be right again, not even to a casual glance. Beauty: it's the upkeep that costs, that's what Balzac said, not the initial investment. Joanna Walsh
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There are so many of you, and you are still just the way I thought I'd grow up, with all that was enviably grown-up about you: the lace tops with modesty inserts, and the spangles as if for nights out, the stiff hair, the cardigans grown over with a fungus of secondary sexual characteristics--bristling with embroidery and drooping with labial frills. Joanna Walsh
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We sit in the ruin, each reading a book, or three of us read out of four. Three different voices speak to us. We have taught the children to read again this week. Here, where there is no voice, apart from ours, they are desperate for any other. They will even sing to themselves, sometimes. The boy whistles. He makes his voice croak. He sings the same thing again, but breathing in. A bird echoes the first notes of Vivaldi. Joanna Walsh
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I am tired and drunk and still hungry. He is full of steak and Coca-Cola and, presumably, energy: enough energy to cross the road and walk up the steps inside the tower of the cathedral, which I have never entered. Joanna Walsh