107 Quotes by Bryce Courtenay

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".

Never take advice from a donkey.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.