Quotes from Michael Robotham

The truth is a story. The truth is a habit. The truth is a compromise. The truth is a casualty. The truth died long ago.

the blackest hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes.

but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

We are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular. EDWARD R. MURROW

He told me we had to "move forward," which is a term that I've never understood. The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we're standing still.

All parents disappoint us eventually.

Every childhood has a mythology that materialises around it. We add our own desires and dreams until the stories become like parables that are more emblematic than edifying.

life is about getting the next footstep right.

Some people will find their own grave too crowded.

The greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to break apart and compartmentalise. It's how we juggle multiple demands, and how we cope with pain and trauma.

life is a three-course meal occasionally seasoned with shit but still edible.

Sometimes when a man feels bad about himself, he doesn't want to be with a woman who looks at him with nothing but love. Instead he wants to lie on top of a woman who knows how nasty and shallow and faithless he can be … a woman who doesn't put him on a pedestal or expect him to be a knight in shining armour … a woman who's happy with the worst he can be.

How do I explain to someone like my mother that love and hate are not absolutes, or opposite sides of the same coin. Hate is an evil passion and love an inspired one,

The milk float has pulled out of a parking space and is only travelling a few miles per hour, but I'm in full flight and still in midair. I clip the front corner nearside mudguard and it feels like the entire All Black front row had driven me into the tarmac.

H.L. Mencken – journalist, beer-drinker and sage – said that for every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong. I share his mistrust for the obvious.

She has a first-class mind and third-class morals, which is exactly what I need right now

And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.

The world is getting faster just as I'm getting slower. I can't keep up so I've stopped trying.

I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—??the memory yields.

Love and hate are not the same emotion turned upside down. One is an illusion of the heart and the other is love betrayed. Apathy lies in between.

A single, random, foolish event can often change a life—a chance meeting, or an accident or a moment of madness. But more often it happens by increments like a creeping tide, so slowly that we barely notice. My life was altered by a diagnosis. It was never going to be a death sentence, but it has robbed me by degrees.

Life is short. Love is vast. Live like there's no tomorrow.

The first pale suggestion of dawn has appeared on the horizon as a faint grey smudge. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the real dark night of the soul is always three o'clock in the morning, but that's not right. The darkest part of the night is just before dawn when we wake and peer through the curtains and wonder where the world has gone.

A coincidence is just a couple of things happening simultaneously.