Quotes from Michael Robotham

If I gave up sarcasm that would leave interpretive dance as my only way of communicating.

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know what crimes have been committed. - The Man in the Iron Mask (155)

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.

Here you can shoot the bad guys,' a mercenary says in Baghdad. 'In America we give them corporate bonuses.

Sometimes people don't come back,' said Rachel. 'That's why you should always make your goodbyes count.

I feel sorry for hookers these days—how do they stand out anymore?

What is the point of sharing your life with someone if you can't communicate with them about the things that matter?

The worst hour of your life is only sixty minutes long

So when you start getting scared, remember that the longest night is only eight hours and the longest hour is only sixty minutes. Dawn is always going to come - unless you don't want it to.

You try to understand human behavior. You try to explain it. Not me. I know we're smaller than gorillas, bigger than chimps, worse than both of them and, for all our rationality, our rules and laws, our baser drives are still straight out of the jungle.

Some parents expect too much of their children and others expect too little. Both can be equally damaging.

They trap us like that - babies- with one look they can take hold of our hearts because our hearts have no defences against such beauty and fragility.

The value of a secret depends upon whom you're trying to keep it from.

Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he'd become a walking suicide note.

is so strange, this life we lead. We search for happiness, but so much is about survival. Existence. We try to manage expectations, but really we're treading water, wasting time, or contemplating lives we might have led. Pretty soon we're like every other godless, money-hungry, backstabbing, jaded, jealous human being, wishing we were richer, prettier, younger, luckier, or could do it all over again.

Loving children is easy. Keeping them is hard.

You know its going to be a bad day when you are having a prostate examination and you feel both of your doctor's hands on your shoulders!

Norman Mailer said there were four stages in a marriage: first the affair then the marriage, then children and then finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

My love for a child will be greater than my love for an adult because it is a singular love that isn't based on physical attraction, or shared experiences, or the pleasures of intimacy, or time together. It is unconditional, immeasurable, unshakeable.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

He didn't lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from his life all superfluous sentiment, all longings and all patience for the nonessential. He was like Yoda, Buddha and the Gladiator all rolled into one.

The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we're standing still.

Getting to know patients is what I do. I learn about their deepest fears and secrets. A professional relationship becomes a personal one. It can be no other way. (190)

For a moment something struggles inside her. Then her mind empties and she surrenders. Fighting fate is too difficult. She must save herself to fight whatever fate throws up.