111 Quotes by Colleen McCullough

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.