Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 6

She wakes, she smiles .... because she is enevloped in the warmth of loving you.
Truth Devour
You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.
S.A. Tawks
We don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don't blame others for the shape of your experience.
Gillian Duce
After a moment, he added more seriously: 'I don't get as angry as m'father used to about things. Or maybe I', just better at hiding m'feelings.''I fear I'm not very good at hiding my feelings.'He covered my hand with his own. 'That's what I like about you. I liked it from the first. You're so different from the others.
Jennifer Paynter
In the quiet moments, listen to your heart; where it wanders is where your truth lays.
Nikki Rowe
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
Thomas Keneally
Sometimes fate is what you make it, and I'm making my life with you.
Leisa Rayven
...if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.
Juliet Marillier
The nature of Paganism is that of exploring, evolution, and opening up.
Gede Parma
Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.
Markus Zusak
My body's been touched a thousand or more times but I am craving something so much deeper than that ~ I desire to be felt, right down to the core of my soul and the corners of my heart. That's what love is about isn't it ~ cracking yourself open to the possibility that it could change your life.
Nikki Rowe
Her eyes narrowing, she turned her attention back to where Stephanie stood with Ben, feeling her own pain turn to intense fury. “Dominic knew her so damn well because he was usually thinking the same thing. She was his female version – two halves fitting perfectly together,” Gena spat out, anger inflected in her voice. “Like him, she’s reckless and like him, once she gets something into her head nothing or no one will change her mind.” Her fury revealed itself in her eyes, as she spat out, “And, like him, she’s going to get herself killed.” - Gena Evans, Nowhere to Run
Nina D'Angelo
It is. I’m your boyfriend now, whichmeans there’s no room for your hipster admirer. He’ll just have to lick his wounds while we lick other things.
Kylie Scott
If you are gonna wear it, you need to own it.
Kelly St. Clare
The glow flares bright—bright as the billion-year-old light around us. Bright as a sun.Almost every particle in the universe was once part of a star.First, hydrogen condensing and collapsing, bringing radiance to the void.Furnaces burning bright, then fading, giving all they had left back into the cosmos.Carbon and oxygen. Iron and gold.Vast clouds swirling with their own gravity. Coalescing and disintegrating.Generation to generation.The remnants of stellar alchemy, stirring into life, then consciousness.Crawling from the oceans. Taking to the skies.And from there, back to the stars that birthed them.A perfect circle.
Amie Kaufman
Oh darling, your only too wild, to those whom are to tame, don't let opinions change you.
Nikki Rowe
One foot in each world, riding them simultaneously; expecting not to fall.
Kelly Proudfoot
Dad reckons if you have a great time in one place, then that's a good reason for never going back. Nothing will ever measure up to the first time. He laughs at people who go to the same place every year, same beach, same house, same things to do.
James Moloney
What a blessing it is to love books.
Elizabeth von Arnim
The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.
Karen Foxlee
Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see a girl who is prettier than you standing nearby, and think to yourself: "I wish she wasn't here." -This is what happens when you attach your identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention you receive.
Miya Yamanouchi
...we can love someone without understanding that person.
Dorothy Rowe
Your gift to the world is your purpose, you must find it, not for them, but for you. They will live on regardless of who you are, but you will remember who you felt short of, trying to please them. The only gift that the world needs is more, awakened beings, ready to be themselves, to unite a community to do the same; everywhere & that is the gift, to rise to your greatness & help others do the same.
Nikki Rowe
Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
Trudi Canavan
VIDEO ARCHIVE-INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYEI like trees… grass… only birds in sky. People walking safe. FamilyNo Creatures. Sleep all night safe. Walk under sun in own place.Grow plants. Build.Be father with mother. Have Children. A place like Petar told me. Home.After Change goes back…I want home.
Garth Nix
And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.
Anne Bartlett
I’m texting your picture, your name, and your address to one of my flatmates. In case I’m letting your beautiful building blind me to the fact you’re actually a serial killer.”To his credit, he didn’t look at her like she was crazy, just smiled. “I’m a reasonably famous rugby player. I’m on the TV. You can see my half naked ass on a billboard as you drive off the Sydney Harbour Bridge.”“What, you can’t be a serial killer as well?
Amy Andrews
I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.
Kirsty Murray
...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.
Alison Croggon
He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.
David Malouf
The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun islike a yellow hole. . .
Markus Zusak
Strano come certi ridicoli rituali appaiano perfettamente sensati quando si è innamorati.
Alexandra Adornetto
Fate will catch up to you, souls don't have a physical address.
Nikki Rowe
A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
Melina Marchetta
It occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all that is lost to God, that which has set itself apart and refuses to return, believing itself to be in exile.
K.J. Bishop
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and abso
Germaine Greer
All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?
Liane Moriarty
I make art when I can't gather the words to say.
Nikki Rowe
He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said,"Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".
Melina Marchetta
Let your light shine from the inside out.
Juliet M Sampson
I was shy,” said six-foot-one of bashful male. He grunted as a sharp, feminine elbow thudded inconspicuously into his side.
Anne Gracie
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
Max Barry
I've always felt I deserved a wider audience, so thank you for reading this.
Ivana Hruba
I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.
Glenda Millard
If your heart is conflicted, teach it to be unrestricted.
Nikki Rowe
Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.
Isobelle Carmody
I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.
Baz Luhrmann
The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.
Warwick Middleton
If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.
Peter Singer
I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.
Jennifer Harrison
Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.
Melina Marchetta
i think through it all, the hardest part was un-attaching myself to the ones I thought would stay around forever. People change and life changes with it, you've got to fight like mad for everything you love and let go with ease for everything that isn't fitting for you anymore. It is apart of maturing your soul, you attract what you need for that stage of your life, and you grow, as people change and so does life.
Nikki Rowe
If you can learn to motivate yourself, you can always tap into an abundance of energy that will drive you to the success you dream of.
Rachael Bermingham
He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
Melina Marchetta
They [left-wingers] willy-nilly throw around the accusation of Nazism and comparisons to Hitler whenever confronted by any opposition, yet they are today's Nazis in their determination to shut down by threats or violence free speech and assembly.
Steve McCann
But this kiss? It's ruined me. This is the type of kiss I never knew existed. It's like falling and flying, all in the same moment.
Leisa Rayven
Be careful of your mood and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.
Rhonda Byrne
Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.
Melina Marchetta
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
Ben Elton
I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.
S.A. Tawks