Benjamin Law

“The sex education lessons were surprisingly frank. As a class, we were accustomed to Mrs Reed reading to us from giant storybooks the size of a desk, but we never thought there’d be sex education versions featuring massive, three-dimensional pop-out reproductive organs. Monstrously large-scaled labia opened and folded at us as Mrs Reed turned the pages, like fleshy, winking vertical eyes. Wink Wink, the pop-up labia seemed to be saying to us. Nudge, nudge.”
― Benjamin Law, The Family Law

“Likewise, when my mum learns a new word from television or conversation, she writes it down in her notebook. If the word is particularly tricky, she asks me to spell and define it, then scrawls it down onto scrap paper and sticky tapes it to the wall to help her remember its meaning and spelling… Even now, the word diarrhoea is stuck to the dining-room wall.”
― Benjamin Law, The Family Law