# Quote — Tim Winton, Cloudstreet

> Sometimes she couldn't think what jerrybuilt frame was holding her together. It wasn't willpower anymore. She'd gone past that lately. She only had will enough to make everything else work, these days. There was never enough left for her. She was like that blessed truck of Lester's, running on an empty sump.

- Author: [Tim Winton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton.md)
- Book: [Cloudstreet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/cloudstreet.md)
- Page: 274
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Winton#Cloudstreet_(1991)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/cloudstreet/sometimes-she-couldnt

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> Oriel looked at the potatoes in her hand and thought of the things she'd like to tell the spud growers of Australia about taking a little time, a little pride and a little care.

p. 266 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/cloudstreet/oriel-looked-at-the.md)

> Why was it that he didn't know a thing about the underlying nature of people, the shadows and shifts, the hungers and hopes that caused them to do the things they did?

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> "It does you good to be tenants. It reminds you of your own true position in the world."

p. 416 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/cloudstreet/it-does-you.md)