Quotes from Michael Robotham

If I wanted to talk to a bearded man with delusions of grandeur, I'd ask my barista how his band is doing.

windows are ringed with dark shadows of soot that leak like a beauty queen's tears

We should wish our children full lives, jam-packed with triumph and tragedy, boredom and excitement, beautiful, messy, passionate and worth celebrating. I

His freckles have faded but must riot every summer across his nose and cheeks.

Michael Leunig cartoon showing a tiny sad-eyed man with a noose around his neck. The rope was curled over a beam with a large bucket tied to the other end. As the man cried, his tears filled the bucket and lifted him higher and higher off the ground. Evie is that figure, standing on her tiptoes, filling a bucket with

I won't say anything—and he won't ask. That's one of the great paradoxes of friendship between men. It's like an unspoken code: you don't start tunneling unless you hit rock bottom.

Justice and fairness are like rain that falls more heavily on some people than others. People with umbrellas tend to stay dry. People on high ground avoid the flood. Rich people. Connected people.

Afterwards he congratulated me on a new university record for the most organs hit with one needle in a single procedure.

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

Why is it that men have pride but women have shame?

To their west a jungle of clouds has swallowed the sun before it dips below the horizon. It's like watching a flame burn through a soggy piece of newspaper.

The waitress suggests the special, a vegetarian lasagne. Ruiz tells her he didn't fight his way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

I was so worried about rocking the boat, I failed to spot the iceberg.

He once told me that being politically correct was like pretending you could pick up a dog turd by the clean end.

Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn't feel like a death plummet.

Tempe is like a condensed drop of color that has landed in my world of water, spreading and outlining things, creating contrast and vividness. More than one drop might be too much.

Haven't you heard – fat isn't the killer any more. Now I can eat more pork than Kermit.

there are so many ways to move forward and only one way to stand still.

In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret.

People talk about there being sliding doors or forks in the road when lives take a different course. Sometimes it's only later, in retrospect, that we recognize we even had a choice.

You can't go alone." "He won't see me otherwise. I'll make an appointment. People don't get killed when they make an appointment.

Audie could stare into the distance like he was looking across an ocean, or watching sparks floating above a campfire. He could make a cell seem like it had no walls.

Manchmal kommen Menschen nicht zurück. Deshalb sollte man immer darauf achten, sich richtig zu verabschieden.

Audie had never been a hater, because when people hate with too much energy it's normally something about themselves they hate the most.