Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 7

She forced herself to stroll casually and appraise her plants. The wisteria was shedding its final leaves, the jasmine had long lost its flowers, but the autumn had been mild and the pink roses were still in bloom. Eliza went closer, took a half-opened bud between her fingers and smiled at the perfect raindrop caught within its inner petals. The thought was sudden and complete. She must make a bouquet, a welcome-home gift for Rose. Her cousin was fond of flowers, but more than that, Eliza would select plants that were a symbol of their bond. There must be ivy for friendship, pink rose for happiness, and some of the exotic oak-leaved geranium for memories...
Kate Morton
Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.
K.J. Bishop
Maybe it’s not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it’s the very presence of one thing – light or darkness – that necessitates the existence of the other.Think about it, people couldn’t become legendary heroes if they hadn’t first done something to combat darkness. Doctors could do no good if thereweren’t diseases for them to treat.
Jessica Shirvington
It's going to be like an...aura, I guess."He looked down at me and raised an eyebrow. "Explain?""Like even though there are outside forces pushing through the walls, in here it's like a bubble of goodness. Like coming home."I could feel him smiling and it encouraged me to elaborate. "When I think of how others would see it, I imagine them seeing a force of goodness overshadowing a force of evil, protecting it.
Jessica Shirvington
There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn.
S.A. Tawks
The average gym junkie today is all about appearance, not ability. Flash, not function. These men may have big, artificially pumped up limbs, but all that the size is in the muscle tissue; theirtendons and joints are weak . Ask the average muscleman to do a deep one-leg squat-ass-to-floor-style-and his knee ligaments would probably snap in two. What strength most bodybuilders do have, they cannot use in a coordinated way; if you asked them to walk on their hands they'd fall flat on their faces.
Paul Wade
A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.
P.L. Travers
There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.
Aprille Legacy
Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.
Kate Morton
I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she’s a bit full of herself.
Graeme Simsion
Fifteen and on the brink, that’s what Mum says about me. On the brink. Like it’s the continental shelf or something. On the brink of what? I want to yell. A rich and meaningful life? Disaster?
Kathryn Lomer
All of the crazy, risky, wild, dangerous, irrational things I'd been doing, like rushing through my firsts. I'd been wrong, desperate. Just waiting for the end." - Edie
Kylie Scott
Don’t Seek Happiness - Happiness is like an orgasm: if you think about it too much, it goes away. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy, and you might find you get some as a side effect. We didn’t evolve to be constantly content. Contented Australopithecus Afarensis got eaten before passing on their genes.
Tim Minchin
Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.
Malti Bhojwani
True peace is not found in external circumstances, but within ones own heart.
Graham Aitchison
The oceans never stop. They know no beginning or end. The wind never finishes. Sometimes it disappears, but only to gather momentum from somewhere else, returning to fling itself at the island, to make a point which is lost on Tom.
M.L Stedman
I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure.
Truth Devour
Dicks don't have brains. It's why men get into trouble
Kylie Scott
I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.
Kylie Scott
There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.
Anna Funder
She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.
Anna Funder
Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together?
Jay McLean
You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life lived.
Becca Lee
I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.
Colin Thompson
How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them?
J.M. Coetzee
Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.
Miya Yamanouchi
It is by no means your past that determines or dictates your present or your future; it is what you think and what you say, which then results in what you feel and what you do.
Miya Yamanouchi
Boredom is your soul's way of telling you to step up and do what you were born to.
Miya Yamanouchi
Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.
Markus Zusak
It's always been the love of the music for me, the rawness of the notes vibrating through my body, the honesty of the sound I create that blocks out all the other shit. If you don't let all that, the music, its impact, become a part of you, then it doesn't matter how good you are, how successful. I don't care who you are, if you don't surrender to the power of the music, you are just playing a role.
Lexxie Couper
The truth, Ms Rainn, is that advice and inspirational quotes and sayings may give you a kick start, but it's up to you to keep that motivation alive.
S.A. Tawks
Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.
Elizabeth von Arnim
He gave me a message for you.” She tightened her lips as if the words soured her mouth.“What is it?”“That you are in his blood.”I looked down at the deck to hide the answering surge within my own blood.“Those are the words of a lover, Eona.
Alison Goodman
Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.
Fiona Wood
I want to share in endless ways, My expression of love for you, I'm no longer the beast of burden, Twas lifted when I fell for you.
Truth Devour
I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters. 
Jennifer Harrison
I wasnt looking for anything when I found you & it somehow made me question what I wanted, was i ready for love? I don't think anyone is ever ready, but when someone makes you feel alive again it's kind of worth the risk...
Nikki Rowe
It’s not as if he’s good-looking, because he’s not. Sometimes he’s so plain that he looks bland. But it’s his voice and his mannerisms that fill him with some kind of color. I listen to his voice and its resonance hooks me in. The worry lines on his forehead, his expression when he twists his face into a smile, and the way his whole face lights up when he laughs those short bursts of laughter.
Melina Marchetta
I've been playing in the field of life on my own for a while now and it's fair to say I have gained myself along the way, I gotta admit though, after all this time I am damn well excited to fall insanely inLove with someone who knows how to take my breath away.
Nikki Rowe
His head was on one side, listening to me, and that was such sweeness to me, that he listened intently. No one, it seemed, has ever listened like he does.
Sue Woolfe
Love is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage.
Amy Andrews
I love you like the woman I am now. Not the girl I was. I’m battered and bruised and I’m tougher, but I’m still here. I’m scared to death, but I’m more frightened of a life without you.
Amy Andrews
You have no idea how dirty I can play.” He laughed. “Bring. It. On.
Amy Andrews
Day after day you find a way to make this grown man cry.
Keith Urban
Even five minutes of your time can make someone’s day,
Melina Marchetta
She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.
Steven Herrick
Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tóti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tóti: "Yes. Tóti said carefully." Agnes: "Then Blondal and the rest are going against God. They're hypocrites. They say they are carrying out God's law but they are only doing the will of men.
Hannah Kent
When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises
Jeremy Griffith
It indicated to me,' Jane replied with brutal candour, 'that you're some sort of good-looking, lazy layabout who drifts around the world sponging off people and he'd rather not let you get your hands on any proceeds from this house because you would blow it all—on,' she gestured, 'whatever lazy layabouts blow their money on. Wine, women and... horses, probably,' she finished disgustedly.
Lindsay Armstrong
Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.
J.M. Coetzee
I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch.
Rachel Ward
...the terrible though occurred to her that perhaps she'd always unconsciously believed that because Sam didn't cry, he therefore didn't feel, or he felt less, not as profoundly or deeply as she did. Her focus had always been on how his actions affected her feelings, as if his role was to do things for her, to her, and all that mattered was her emotional response to him, as if a "man" were a product or service, and she'd finally chosen the right brand to get the right response. Was it possible she'd never seen or truly loved him the way he deserved to be loved? As a person? An ordinary, flawed, feeling person?
Liane Moriarty
... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.
Em Bailey
...the terrible thought occurred to her that perhaps she'd always unconsciously believed that because Sam didn't cry, he therefore didn't feel, or he felt less, not as profoundly or deeply as she did. Her focus had always been on how his actions affected her feelings, as if his role was to do things for her, to her, and all that mattered was her emotional response to him, as if a "man" were a product or service, and she'd finally chosen the right brand to get the right response. Was it possible she'd never seen or truly loved him the way he deserved to be loved? As a person? An ordinary, flawed, feeling person?
Liane Moriarty
Love and wisdom are guides towards awakening.
Belsebuub
To live a life without awakening is to leave it as it was begun.
Belsebuub
The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.
Cory Bernardi
The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.
Gideon Haigh
I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.
Elizabeth Scott
... consider the meaning of these images. Every time you're working with them, ask yourself: what do they mean? And, even more important, what do they mean to me? The more specific and personal something is, the more its universality emerges.
Fiona Wood