Colleen McCullough Quotes

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

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.

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.

Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

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

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

I can’t share your love of God. But I do understand your need to give your life to him. Each of us has within us something that just won’t be denied. Something to which we are driven even though it makes us scream aloud to die.

There was some justice in his pain

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.

It's not worth getting upset about, Mrs. Dominic. Down in the city they don't know how the other half lives, and they can afford the luxury of doting on their animals as if they were children. Out here it's different. You'll never see man, woman or child in need of help go ignored out here, yet in the city those same people who dote on their pets will completely ignore a cry of help from a human being.

Казваш, че ме обичаш, но нямаш представа какво е любов; само редиш думи, които си научил наизуст, защото ти се струва, че звучат добре

The Greeks say it's a sin against the gods to love something beyond all reason. And do you remember that they say when someone is loved so, the gods become jealous, and strike the object down in the very fullness of its flower?

The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men are not uniform.

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.