Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 12

The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.
S.A. Tawks
Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appea something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
Germaine Greer
Make your inner foundations strong and secure and then you can enjoy your partner, rather than feeling you must own them.
Joanne Madeline Moore
I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in."He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.
Melina Marchetta
I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.
Elizabeth Scott
You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written.
Georgia Clark
I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
Markus Zusak
Never take advice from a donkey.
Bryce Courtenay
She didn’t sound overjoyed. She didn’t sound even slightly joyed.
Sarah Mayberry
How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?
Krystal Sutherland
You are worth fighting for.
Truth Devour
If others benefit through you getting what you desire most,it will have a positive impact on the world and only then will every atom of your being work with the universe to help it come into fruition.
Malti Bhojwani
Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.
S.A. Tawks
Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
Melina Marchetta
all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.
Robert Adamson
He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, of the innocent eyes of good men, of the elastic nature of the passions, even of the devotion he had received from some men, and one woman, and dogs.
Patrick White
I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive. And I understand that at that precise moment, when your heart breaks open, that all you want to do is lay down and die! Because you know that is the only way the pain is ever going to stop.
Patti Roberts
...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.
Narissa Doumani
Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.
Jennifer Paynter
The remnants of my dress hung like tentacles and from my back arched a pari of towering wings, feather-light but suggesting enourmous power. My hair streamed behind me, and I knew that the ring of light around my head would be brighter than ever.“Holy crap!” Xavier blurted
Alexandra Adornetto
Standing there, that day, I felt like Sally was being torn from my skin and there was no way I could ever fly free, without her right beside me.
Belinda Jeffrey
Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.
Nick Vujicic
I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.
Sonya Hartnett
History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed,....
Kate Morton
Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
Markus Zusak
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 can believe that you are a good and caring person, but if you don't treat others with goodness and care, where is the proof?
Nick Vujicic
Luck plays no part in the divinity of the moment that is set to transpire and make two unite into one burning flame of eternal love.
Truth Devour
Never once did I think you were less than a good person.
Veronica Purcell
Geniuses are their own saviors.
Anthony O'Neill
It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines.
Emily Maguire
Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's all just clamor and confusion. It only becomes a story when we tell it and retell it. Our small precious recollections that we speak again and again to ourselves and to others, first creating the narrative of our lives and then keeping the story from dissolving into darkness.
Nick Cave
The first time you see your grown-up little miss looking back at you from a sea of white chiffon or beaded satin glory, indeed your heart will skip a beat. You’ll find yourself blinking back tears. That elusive someday has suddenly become now. Your little girl—your jewel—is going to be a bride.
Cheryl Barker
A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour
Jeremy Griffith
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children
Markus Zusak
Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight."Three of us would make four times the noise he will," Halt said.Horace frowned, not quite understanding the equation. "Wouldn't three of us make three times the noise?"Halt shook his head. "Will and Tug will make hardly any noise. Neither will Abelard and I. But as for you and that moving earthquake you call a horse..." He gestured at Kicker and left the rest unsaid.
John Flanagan
what the fuck
Luke Hemmings
I'm just another stupid human.
Markus Zusak
The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles. It has been hidden by secrecy, complexity and scale. The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.These transformations have come about silently, because those who know what is going on work in the global surveillance industry and have no incentives to speak out. Left to its own trajectory, within a few years, global civilization will be a postmodern surveillance dystopia, from which escape for all but the most skilled individuals will be impossible. In fact, we may already be there.While many writers have considered what the internet means for global civilization, they are wrong. They are wrong because they do not have the sense of perspective that direct experience brings. They are wrong because they have never met the enemy.
Julian Assange
We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.
Rachel Ward
Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land.""Like me, then," I said."Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.
Lucy Christopher
Life is like a train going in circles, the train is comfortable - it has nice scenery, it provides warmth and food & for most a loving atmosphere. Most of the people stay on the train there entire lives, maybe every now and again they may peep out the door, some might even get off only to quickly realise they want back on. Then you have the rare ones who I aspire to be, those who are bored of the train - to them - the thought of living without it, is risky but the reward of tasting life outside of doors and walls excite them enough to try.
Nikki Rowe
Live within and without your core of being.
Truth Devour
Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to become given another millennium of intermixing. His skin was a rich pecan color from his dad, who was part African American and part native Hawaiian. His hair, straight and glossy black, and the almond shape of his eyes came from his Japanese grandmother. But their color was the cool blue he'd inherited from his mum, a Swedish windsurfing champion.
Geraldine Brooks
The page we have in our colouring book may appear to have a similar outline but we all vary in the way we fill in the space. Diversity keeps us interesting.Celebrate your differences.
Truth Devour
Everything about him enveloped her, made her crave exactly this. His possession. In her mind something relaxed; the balance shifted. She welcomed every way he could touch her, the heat from his body, the atoms of his breath. Everything.
Cari Silverwood
I want to be tantric with you.
Truth Devour
Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away.
Nikki Rowe
I seen the look in your eyes...I reached out to touch you but feared I would mark your skin. I do not want just tonight, my love. I want to know that always...always...you will be mine.
Faye Hall
Then he remembered Ralph's words--"no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right.
M.L Stedman
I sat and reflected on the situation I had facedI needed answers to the questions I still, didnt have the courage to ask...But I need to know,How was this to be apart of my destiny?
Nikki Rowe
If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that–so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.
Jeremy Griffith
The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself."The second sign of madness," I explain."What's the first one?""Killing lots of people and eating their genitals."He laughs and sneaks another look at me.
Michael Robotham
Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata Suzuki
Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?’ I asked.‘You cannot take these flowers,’ said Zoran. ‘They belong to the government.
Doug MacLeod
I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person's trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on the trust they have stolen.
Najaf Mazari
You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.
Truth Devour
Riley, you're the Devil, and I'd gladly sell you my soul, if you didn't already own it..." - Luc Wade
Bec McMaster
We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love.
Paul O'Brien
He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted.
Markus Zusak