104 Quotes by Michael Robotham

Audie had never been a hater, because when people hate with too much energy it’s normally something about themselves they hate the most.

We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savor every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realize we can never know more than we don’t know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.

The waitress suggests the special, a vegetarian lasagne. Ruiz tells her he didn’t fight his way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

You ever considered the possibility that you might be an alcoholic?” “Nope. Alcoholics go to meetings,” he replies. “I don’t go to meetings.

I feel sorry for hookers these days – how do they stand out anymore?

To their west a jungle of clouds has swallowed the sun before it dips below the horizon. It’s like watching a flame burn through a soggy piece of newspaper.

Some parents expect too much of their children and others expect too little. Both can be equally damaging.

For a moment something struggles inside her. Then her mind empties and she surrenders. Fighting fate is too difficult. She must save herself to fight whatever fate throws up.

If I gave up sarcasm that would leave interpretive dance as my only way of communicating.