Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 33

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.
Marianne de Pierres
What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?
J.M. Coetzee
During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.
Jennifer Harrison
Alice felt a surge of pity for them, stuck as they were within the white-hot glow of youth, when everything seemed so vital, so essential, so important.
Kate Morton
But here we call it Spring, when a young man’s fancy turns,fitfully, lightly, to idling in the sun,to touching in the dark. And the old man's?To worms in their garden box; stepping asidea moment in a poem that will remember,fitfully, who made it and the discordand stammer, and change of heart and catch of breathit sprang from. A bending downlightly to touch the earth.
David Malouf
They walked off on the earthy path, laughing not quite naturally, for they could hardly help being pleased by the momentary attention of descending passengers and by their own almost meritorious youth.
Shirley Hazzard
They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.
Leanne Hall
He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.
Markus Zusak
I want to kiss you so very badly, Rose. But I can't. And its killing me"-Mr. Stone
Kate Bloomfield
A woman could do a lot of crazy things for a pair of fine-looking dimples.
Amy Andrews
You do know I’m not psychic, right?’Dash looked down at her. ‘Joy...you do know that normal people don’t see ghosts, right?
Amy Andrews
Dash shoved his hands on his hips and looked down into the bowl. ‘You gave my fish pink rocks?’ he said as he turned to face her.Joy shrugged. ‘I didn’t really look at the colour I just grabbed the nearest bag.’‘It had to be pink?’‘There’s some blue as well.’He looked into the bowl again. ‘Not really.’Joy couldn’t believe she was having a conversation about pink rocks when the bigger question of what the hell he’d found out about the robberies was still unanswered. ‘You think it’s going to turn Ralph gay?’ she asked sweetly. ‘Given that he’s living his life out solo it’s kind of a moot question, don’t you think?’‘You’re right, I think he needs a girlfriend. Or a boyfriend.’‘With those rocks? I think he needs Fishtank Barbie in there.’‘Is your masculinity threatened because your fish has pink rocks?’Dash folded his arms. ‘He’s a bloke. He doesn’t do pink.’Joy glanced at the bowl. ‘It works,’ she said. ‘It...blends.’‘He’s orange,’ Dash said. ‘Since when have pink and orange gone together?
Amy Andrews
There was nothing like the cold, heavy steel of a gun, the soft moan of an appreciative woman or the sharp burn of a good single malt to make a man grateful to be alive. Tonight, with his gun gone and his sex life a wasteland, Dash had to settle for whiskey.
Amy Andrews
Riley, you're the Devil, and I'd gladly sell you my soul, if you didn't already own it..." - Luc Wade
Bec McMaster
Kidnapping you was the worst idea I ever had." - Luc Wade
Bec McMaster
Being born of the dreams and nightmares of humans, they weren’t truly faery or demon. The semantics of labels didn’t matter. There was just light, and there was dark, and neither of them belonged in this world.
Cari Silverwood
Then I woke in the shade of the fig tree in my favorite park, with the gun barrel in my mouth.
Cari Silverwood
There was something about ink curling across a man’s bulging bicep that invoked the dance of horniness.
Cari Silverwood
We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.
Rebecca Lim
If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve.
Tony Curl
The are some things beyond human comprehension. i know that there's a Heaven and a Hell, and I've seen what can come out of both. For now that's all I need to know - Xavier Woods
Alexandra Adornetto
The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn't have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn't want to go there.
Kerry Greenwood
You see, Squirt, there's heaven, and then there's hell. Hell is where they send all the bad people, like criminals and con artists and parking inspectors. And heaven is where they send all the good people, like you and me and that nice blonde from MasterChef.What happens when you get there? In heaven, you hang out with God and Jimi Hendrix, and you get to eat doughnuts whenever you want. In hell, you have to, uh . . . do the Macarena. Forever. To that "Grease Megamix." Where do you go if you're good and bad? What? I don't know. IKEA?
Brooke Davis
My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.
Elizabeth Scott
I smile broadly, feeling as warm and full as the sun.
Georgia Clark
And they lived ever after, whether they were happy about it or not.
Allyse Near
everyone who terrifies you is sixy-five percent water, and everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not even loss. you are made of the sea and the stars and one day you are going to find yourself again.
Finn Butler
Why are you smiling like that?""I'm just happy.""Why?""Because you're here. You're real. And you're mine.
Jay McLean
If it makes you happy, then you succeeded already.
Tyrolin Puxty
Be happy NOW. Feel good NOW. That's the only thing you have to do. And if that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest truth of The Secret.
Rhonda Byrne
It's not the circumstances of your life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy! Like attracts like, happiness attracts happiness, so just drop the excuses - drop every one of them - and be happy now!
Rhonda Byrne
We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united
Morris Gleitzman
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Steve Irwin
Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.
Sonya Hartnett
Every day we’re given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.
Rachael Bermingham
The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that.
Nikki Rowe
If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.
Nikki Rowe
Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval.
Nikki Rowe
When we are aware, we step into the moment which is outside of time.
Belsebuub
If you want to feel and know everything the horse is doing, begin by feeling and knowing everything you are doing.
Catherine Louise Birmingham
And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.
Rebecca James
To feel your arms around me...to feel your breath on my neck...is pleasure in itself. It is home.
Faye Hall
There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.
Kate Morton
How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?
Fiona Wood
He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.
Stephanie Bishop
....he will always live in a place he is not from. For a long time he thought that habit would counter this fact and custom would disguise it. He thought, in the beginning, that such things would not matter in the long run. But they did, they do, they always will.
Stephanie Bishop
I would’ve loved to return to me home of Ireland, but Joshua never made the bloody pikes he was flogged for.
Sharon Robards
VIDEO ARCHIVE-INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYEI like trees… grass… only birds in sky. People walking safe. FamilyNo Creatures. Sleep all night safe. Walk under sun in own place.Grow plants. Build.Be father with mother. Have Children. A place like Petar told me. Home.After Change goes back…I want home.
Garth Nix
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and abso
Germaine Greer
This poem inspired me to write my eBook.The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Lord TennysonAnd I would be the necklace, And all day long to fall and rise Upon her balmy bosom, With her laughter or her sighs; And I would lie so light, so light, I scarce should be unclasp’d at night.
Ellen Read
This poem inspired me to write my eBook.The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Lord TennysonIt is the miller’s daughter, And she is grown so dear, so dear,That I would be the jewel That trembles in her ear; For hid in ringlets day and night I’d touch her neck so warm and white.
Ellen Read
Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.
A.B. Shepherd
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
Clive James
...Tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances.
Krystal Sutherland
Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.
Marianne Curley
He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .
Sheridan Hay
Altering your perspective can provide you the luxury of seeing things for what they are, not what you wish them to be.
Truth Devour
The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.
Arlene J. Chai
The whole underneath of Paris was an ant nest, Metro tunnels, sewer shafts, catacombs, mines, cemeteries. She'd been down in the city of bones where skulls and femurs rose in yellowing walls. Right down there, win the square before them. through a dinky little entrance, were the Roman ruins like honeycomb. The trains went under the river. There were tunnels people had forgotten about. It was a wonder Paris stood up at all. The bit you saw was only half of it. Her skin burned, thinking of it. The Hunchback knew. Up here in the tower of Notre Dame he saw how it was. Now and then, with the bells rattling his bones, he saw it like God saw it -- inside, outside, above and under -- just for a moment. The rest of the time he went back to hurting and waiting like Scully out there crying in the wind.
Tim Winton
Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it.
M.L Stedman