Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 2

Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past.
Miya Yamanouchi
Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life.
Beau Taplin
I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.
A.B. Shepherd
Then she smiles, like it'sthe first time she's seen sunafter a decade of winters.
Emma Cameron
One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.
Chris Womersley
A story is a wondrous invention.
Chris Womersley
After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.
Chris Womersley
To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.
Chris Womersley
Oh darling, your only too wild, to those whom are to tame, don't let opinions change you.
Nikki Rowe
Women!” he muttered. “Can't live with 'em, can't escape even by killing 'em.
Naomi Kramer
Each Inspirational Messenger who was and has been acknowledged in the history books was done so because of the way they chose to live. Their life had a core message that was central to their years, whether they exemplified and expressed whenever they took a step in the world.
Emily Gowor
Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?
Markus Zusak
She looked at her note cards and took a breath. "Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald's. America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France, where the Government isn't privatized, they still have to pay tax and do whatever the Government says, which would really suck. In USA countries, we respect individual rights and let people do whatever they want.
Max Barry
The spicy sweet fragrance of the large full blooms, which rambled over the side and top of an arched metal framework, welcomed them as they walked beneath them. Shafts of sunlight pierced the canopy, dust motes floating languorously in the golden beams that spotlighted clumps of wayward snowdrops growing in the lawn.
Ellen Read
...if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.
Juliet Marillier
You cannot simultaneously want to eat a chocolate cake every day in front of the TV and want to be slim. You cannot want to be single and carefree and want to be in a loving, exclusive relationship
Malti Bhojwani
Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval.
Nikki Rowe
In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.
Matthew Kelly
David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.
Geraldine Brooks
I bet that guy was as obsessed with Sarah as I am with this other girl, and I bet he promised himself never to hurt her, just like I've been doin' - and look what he's done to her. He's left her a crumpled mess, lyin' on her bed all the time.
Markus Zusak
Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
Markus Zusak
I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know im up to something but never know exactly what.
Nikki Rowe
I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.
Markus Zusak
Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them
Gregory David Roberts
The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.
Hayley Solich
The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes, accept this criticism. He can admit that no rational proof of God's existence is possible. And he can still retain all that is essential to his position, by holding that God's existence is known in some other, non-rational way. I think, however, that a more telling criticism can be made by way of the traditional problem of evil. Here it can be shown, not that religious beliefs lack rational support, but that they are positively irrational, that the several parts of the essential theological doctrine are inconsistent with one another, so that the theologian can maintain his position as a whole only by a much more extreme rejection of reason than in the former case. He must now be prepared to believe, not merely what cannot be proved, but what can be disproved from other beliefs that he also holds.
John Leslie Mackie
The actions and emotional responses of others are not your responsibility. You cannot rescue people from themselves. This is for them to do. — André Chevalier
Nikki Sex
You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self.
Truth Devour
Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet... (Minora)
Elizabeth von Arnim
She remembered the days when they'd been each other's everything, when just being together was enough. When she believed their love could conquer the world. How long had it been since Michael had said her name in that special way, when they'd talked all night about their dreams and their future?
Dominique Wilson
Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone.
Truth Devour
You and I will have our forever.
Truth Devour
You do bad things to me, Carrie,” he grinned, “Very bad things.
Kassandra Cross
Stella scribbledin thick black textaacross half the pagesof my best storybook,filled with people who venturedwhere their hearts took them.Beautiful worlds beyond mine.
Emma Cameron
Fireworks made of glass. An explosion of dew. Crescendo. Diminuendo. Silence.There are drugs that work the same, and while I am not suggesting that our founder purchased the glassworks to get more drops, it is clear that she had the seed planted, not once, but twice, and knew already the lovely contradictory nature of glass and she did not have to be told, on the day she saw the works at Darling Harbour, that glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid, that an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at the top, and that even while it is as frail as the ice on a Parramatta puddle, it is stronger under compression than Sydney sandstone, that it is invisible, solid, in short, a joyous and paradoxical thing, as good a material as any to build a life from.
Peter Carey
She wasn't ordinary, I liked her that way. Mystery oozed from her pours as she walked so lightly I could have mistaken her for an angel.
Nikki Rowe
But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.
Brian Castro
The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.
Markus Zusak
When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger.
Tony Attwood
Never underestimate what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself. (Unknown)
D.J. Stutley
You are my treasure.
Truth Devour
He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted.
Markus Zusak
it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do a lot worse than trying to coin some terms of their own: to name the archetypes they wish to invert or criticise and thereby open up the discussion. If authors can be thought of as magicians in any sense, then the root of our power has always rested with words: choosing them, arranging them and – most powerfully – inventing them. Sexism won’t go away overnight, and nor will literary bias. But until then, if we’re determined to invest ourselves in bringing about those changes, it only makes sense to arm ourselves with a language that we, and not our enemies, have chosen.May 14, 2011 Blog post
Foz Meadows
To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.
J.M. Coetzee
Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.
S.A. Tawks
It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug.
S.A. Tawks
He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first.
S.A. Tawks
It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.
S.A. Tawks
Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.
S.A. Tawks
If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.
S.A. Tawks
Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.
S.A. Tawks
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
Miya Yamanouchi
Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
Robert Hughes
Yes, you ARE important enough; and yes, your needs and wants DO matter.
Miya Yamanouchi
You are never alone as long as you are in the company of your precious self.
Miya Yamanouchi
My best memory of school was probably leaving school. Because I hated that fucking place.
Troye Sivan
'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's w
Lisa Henry
To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.
Andrew Leigh
Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Power Point slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies. I don’t understand these things.
Max Barry
See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never really had friends. I kind of stayed on my own. I hated it, but I was proud of it too. Cameron Wolfe needed no one. He didn't need to be amongst a pack. Not all of us roam like that. No, all he needed was his instincts. All he needed was himself.
Markus Zusak