Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 76

I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't....up to scratch
Andrea K. Höst
...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature."It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.
Lian Hearn
Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?
A.A. Bell
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.
Garth Nix
Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
Trudi Canavan
I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.
Garth Nix
We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.
Juliet Marillier
I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.
Kate Forsyth
As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?""Yum," said Mogget."Yes, sir!" mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried to smother the burning wreckage of his switchboard with a fire blanket.
Garth Nix
Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.
Garth Nix
All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.
Juliet Marillier
Then, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow.
C.S. Pacat
And I sort of felt her...you know." Alan made an exaggerated shape of a heart. "You touched her heart?" Mike queried. "No! Her bum. It's sort of, you know, heart shaped. Big heart."He flexed his fingers, remembering the feel of it. "Soft.
Angela Verdenius
My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.
Jennifer Harrison
I met a man; broken as can be, A smile upon his face; no shoes upon his feet,He said one thing " young one , you listen clear"The choices you make now; will always reappear,Live to your heart but do wrong to none,Because when your old like me; you'll remember all you have done.
Nikki Rowe
Her soul was soothed by his presence, Her mind was soothed by his beliefsHer heart was soothed by his love And for the first time, she could see a future with someone who grabbed her by the hand and took her courageous being away from all that had her questioning life.
Nikki Rowe
I looked inward at my heart. And indeed, there too, the criss-cross corsetry was slackened and gaping. I was all undone. Potentially, I could spill. Or tangle. And so I began to tug at my own heartstrings, pulling them up tight until there was just the right amount of tension at each criss and each cross. Then I bent down to my boots and laced them firmly too, first the left, then the right, finishing off on each side with a surgeon's shoelace knot.
Danielle Wood
Your voice is yours, how dare you let another speak for you.Your heart is yours, how dare you give it away, so freely to another you hardly know. Your soul is yours, how dare you ignore its instinctual truth. Your mind is yours, don't let the world make it negative.You are the master of your fate, you are the creator of your destiny, don't hand the keys to anyone, rather open the door and welcome them to taste your paradise within.
Nikki Rowe
When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.
Jennifer Harrison
Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.
Jennifer Harrison
We are all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole.
Narissa Doumani
We all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole.
Narissa Doumani
When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.
Narissa Doumani
Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.
Beau Taplin
When you're having what you feel like is a "bad day" and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.
Miya Yamanouchi
So many went on a quest to tame her, The only man to win her heart was the one Who was also free.
Nikki Rowe
We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes.
Donna Goddard
We can try and push eachother away, we can try and deny what we feel but when two hearts have connected and two souls have been reminded of love there is simply no way fate can keep us apart.
Nikki Rowe
It was electric and we couldn't deny it anymore, even when our words spoke different the energy we drew from each-other spoke too loud, it was almost impossible to ignore.
Nikki Rowe
When you’re dying, even your unhappiest memories can induce a sort of fondness, as if delight is not confined to the good times, but is woven through your days like a skein of gold thread.
Cory Taylor
When a heart mends it doesn't let the same people in twice.
Nikki Rowe
My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.
Fiona Wood
With you, it's different. It's like a coming home.
Nikki Rowe
Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.
Markus Zusak
There’s a pause so yawning I can’t help but think about what it would be like to lean in and kiss her, but if I’m getting the signals wrong then I’m about to destroy the best run we’ve had all evening. It’s been at least ten minutes since I’ve done or said anything stupid.
Leanne Hall
I lend everyone my ear,But nobody my heart,And I sure would like to change that,But I don't know where to start,I smile more to myself,Than the world will ever see,Because the only time my smile is real,Is in my own company,People don't know how I feel,They never even ask,It seems I have fooled them all,They can't see past my mask,If they were with me late at night,When the world was still asleep,Maybe I'd let them sort,Through the secrets that I keep,But when I wake at 2am,Nobody is ever there,And I learnt that why I hide my heart,Is because no-one really cares.
Erin Hanson
Every Princess has one Prince to share the loves and joys of life, and do you know how that Princess knows which Prince is hers?”“How Mommy?”“From the kiss.”“But how?”“The very first kiss with your Prince will change your life. When your lips touch for the first time, the earth will feel like it stops moving, but in the same moment, the world around you spins. It’ll feel like fireworks in the night sky. Like a bright light in the darkness. You’ll feel your heart beat fast in your ears but silence will surround you. And when you pull apart and open your eyes and look at each other, and really see each other. You’ll know it in that moment, through that kiss, that you’ve just let someone own a piece of your heart, and you’ll live happily ever after.
Jay McLean
Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
Markus Zusak
Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.
Markus Zusak
I think success might be one of the most overused words in the western world, and maybe if we changed success for happiness we would be better off, because when you get this ‘success’ will it make you happier? Are we chasing money, fame, power, ego, success, or are we chasing happiness, freedom and the feeling of being content?
Evan Sutter
Policymakers cannot take the situation lightly, for at its worst, it speaks to “intergenerational inequity” – a breaking of the social contract between two generations.
Usman W. Chohan
Actions that exemplify the limitations of a singular devotion to the profit motive, also draw a troublesome distinction between what is legal and what is moral.
Usman W. Chohan
Think of money as energy like you would love and then the belief in the universe will provide all you have been dreaming of.
Nikki Rowe
It's not about judging you, it's about changing your point of view.
Simone Milasas
When you are willing to be everything that you are, you become an infinitely creative source for everything in your life - including money.
Simone Milasas
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Christina Stead
People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves
Ben Elton
...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out Banks, Debt, and Money is a bit to me like an ornithologist trying to work out how a bird flies whilst ignoring that the bird has wings...
Steve Keen
I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.
Max Barry
Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..
Esther Dalseno
One did not need to penetrate David's secret counsels or insinuate a man in his bodyguard. All one needed was a pair of years and access to the royal precincts. Just to eavesdrop upon his singing was to develop an accurate idea of his state of mind.
Geraldine Brooks
Driving home I switch on the radio and one of those old Motown voices comes on and reaches my heart.
Ellen Van Neerven
what the fuck
Luke Hemmings
Never look down unless you're helping them up.
Calum Hood
Just keeping being you. Don't worry what people think. Being you is cool, okay?
Ashton Irwin
I've only got forever and forever is fine
Ashton Irwin
My feet were keeping in time with the music, but my heart was pounding out a different rhythm altogether.
Renee Conoulty
He sat in the chapel for hours picking his way through fugues. A dozen notes, hardly music. But then those few notes spoke to each other, subject and answer, by repetition, by diminution, by augmentation, even looping backwards on themselves in a course like the retrograde motion of Mars. He listened as if he had as many ears as fingertips, and, like a blind man, could feel textures that were barely there. At the end of two or three pages of music he would hear all the voices twining together in a construction of such dizzying power that the walls of the chapel could barely contain it.
Kate Grenville
Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.
Kate Grenville
How strange it would now — like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?
John Marsden