Quotes from Michael Robotham

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

She looked over a shoulder, a gesture he would never get over, a moment fixed in his mind—the perfection of her skin, the music in her laughter; her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching. And he knew at that precise moment that he would always yearn for Belita, whether they spent their lives together or if they parted that evening and he never saw her again.

nothing is black and white except for mathematics and pandas.

let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just because you sponsor a child in Zambia you're doing enough.

You're scared of dying.' 'Better than being scared of living.

It's strange, talking about love. I used to hate the word. Hate is too strong. I was sick of reading about it in books, hearing it in songs, watching it in films. It seemed such a huge burden to place on another person - to love them; to give them something so unbelievably fragile and expect them not to break it or lose it or leave it behind on the No.96 bus.

People, not places, make a life whole.

Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.

Es ist mir egal, wie viel jemand auf der Bank hat - solange er kein Kind hat, besitzt er nichts von Wert.

Fleetingly, unnervingly, I understand what he's saying but cannot accept a world that is so brutally black and white. Murder, rape and torture are the apparatus of terrorists, not of civilized societies. If we become like them, what hope do we have?

The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.

Some lids are best kept closed, glued, nailed, screwed down and buried under six feet of earth.

I once had a patient who was convinced that his head was full of sea water and a crab lived inside. When I asked him what happened to his brain he told me that aliens had sucked it out with a drinking straw. "It is better this way," he insisted. "Now there's more room for the crab.

Convicts are experts at killing time because they age in dog years.

The very first child to introduce himself will be the one with the fewest friends.

I'm so short I tread water in the kiddie pool. I need a ladder to get to the bottom bunk. I hit my head on the ground when I sneeze. I need a running start to reach the toilet. And no, I'm not related to Tom Cruise.

For a man with no cows you talk a lot of bullshit, Ryan.

Her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching.

Her life is crumbling and she's holding it together like a child protecting a sandcastle from the waves.

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

You ever considered the possibility that you might be an alcoholic?" "Nope. Alcoholics go to meetings," he replies. "I don't go to meetings.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

She throws herself at Julianne, calling her Mummy. I haven't heard her use the word in four years. "Be careful. Don't squeeze her too hard," warns the young blond paramedic. "Do you have children?" I ask her. "No." "You'll learn it doesn't hurt when they squeeze you hard.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.' And another time, 'The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.