Colleen McCullough Quotes

Những người sử dụng tay trái là do quỷ sứ sinh ra

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the very moment of their unraveling?...Sometimes, all the miles between are as nothing, sometimes, they are narrowed to the little silence between the beats of a heart.

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

Что толку томиться по человеку, если он все равно твоим никогда не будет?

Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.

Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain

Beware the Greeks when they bear gifts.

Fu cosi' semplice, cosi facile: mi innamorai.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.

Surprised, she realized that keeping physically busy is the most effective blockade against totally mental activity human beings can erect.

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.