Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 89

It is fate, damn destiny, that has its way with us.
Kate Mildenhall
Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins.
Belsebuub
Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.
Jay Kristoff
It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
Melina Marchetta
The question was, could he forgive the past in order to have a future with her? Any future?
Nicola Sinclair
She was feeling something: a tiny pinpoint of feeling. She shifted slightly on the bathroom tiles. No. Surely not. From a book?
Lianne Moriarty
In a minute, in an hour, it will be too late; whatever is happening to her will be set in stone, will belong to the past. But now is not too late. Now he must do something
J.M. Coetzee
Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared?
S.A. Tawks
There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics.
Dame Edna Everage
Your imagination and some masturbation is a much better alternative to finding out what kind of person a bit of casual sex transforms you into.
S.A. Tawks
I felt a hole boring through my heart. It was carving a scar that would never heal. I was a man. A man doesn't cry at lost love. Never. Instead, he turns hard. From now on, I would live up to my name"...Rattler.
Barry Andrew Chambers
Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed...
Isobelle Carmody
I will never want for more. You are my totality.
Truth Devour
Acceptance is the key to finding where my truth lies in the darkness.
Truth Devour
I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for the next million years? And how long will we sit here like this? Just another moment, or the rest of our lives? You know which one I'd prefer...
Lucy Christopher
All pomp and show.” Anjali’s glare at the house would’ve exploded bricks if she’d had superhuman powers. “A fat cow needs a big barn.
Nicola Marsh
Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.
Kate Morton
Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing.
Markus Zusak
You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it’s not amusing enough.” “I’ll try to include a joke between ‘he bled to death’and ‘the city burned’.”Machaon responded tersely.
Sulari Gentill
Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.
Garth Nix
Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.
Truth Devour
Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.
Alison Croggon
We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and only then will we know true peace.
Melina Marchetta
Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.''Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls and crawl along narrow, slippery ledges. I'm a trained warrior, and I'm far to valuable to risk such shenanigans.''We're not valuable?' Will said, feigning insult.Horace looked at him. 'We've got two of you. We can always afford to lose one,' he said firmly.
John Flanagan
I plastered on my best poker face, attempting to appear cool and casual even thought I had never been so eager to deliver two Chicken Parmagianas in my life."Just be careful, hon," Rosanna said."Oh, are the plates hot?" I flinched back just before my hands made contact.Rosanna laughed. "No, but hot boys can burn just as easily.
C.J. Duggan
Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.
Gregory David Roberts
Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.
Traci Harding
It's our version of "me" that causes us the most stress and heartache. Which is why it comes as a relief to discover that this version is as transient as a cloud in the sky. Focus on the cloud and the result is uncertain. Focus on the sky and we discover clarity.
David Michie
Till tomorrow good sir one must but gaze at stars
Andrew Fisher
I feel like I’m going to die,’ he says.‘Could we talk for a few minutes before you die?’‘Only if you do it quietly.’‘I met this girl last night. I need your advice.’‘Come back later.’‘No. You might be dead.
Doug MacLeod
When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals’. Clumsy use of the English language perpetuates the myth that animals are inferior and disposable beings.
Phillip Wollen
It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
Carole Wilkinson
He who discovers the light, discovers life. He who discovers the dark, discovers death, Neither are wrong and neither are right; your perception is what will guide your path. Our minds are our tools, our hearts our truth and our instinct our guidance, don't let them fool you.
Nikki Rowe
And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.
Nikki Rowe
Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone.
Truth Devour
I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unnecessary in between.
Elly Varrenti
No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.
Peter Slezak
She was destroyed many years ago, La Belle, on the cobblestones of the alley beside the opera house ...
Anne Rouen
Let your feet Take you places, let them remind you of the beauty your eyes can't see.
Nikki Rowe
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever
Germaine Greer
So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.
David Malouf
Sadly, however, the sight of her generous D cups no longer sparked an ounce of interest from Little Sam, the man in charge of social activities.
Sarah Mayberry
The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless they are young or married to a head of state or naked or pregnant by some triumph of technology or perpetrators or victims of some hideous crime or any combiniation of the above. Women's issues are often disguised as people issues, unless they are relegated to the women's pages which amazingly still suvive. Senior figures are all male; even the few women who are deemed worthy of obituaries are shown in images from their youth, as if the last fourty years of their lives have been without achievement of any kind. If you analyse the by-lines in your morning paper, you will see that the senior editorial staff are all older men, supported by a rabble of junior females, the infinitely replacesable 'hackettes'.
Germaine Greer
Until woman as she is can drive this plastic spectre out of her own and her man's imagination she will continue to apologize and disguise herself, while accepting her male's pot-belly, wattles, bad breath, farting, stubble, baldness and other ugliness without complaint.
Germaine Greer
I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.
Nick Enright
We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
I would say inhuman, but your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.
Amie Kaufman
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.
Gregory David Roberts
You were my dream and I was just your fantasy.
Nikki Rowe
he captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say.
Nikki Rowe
In suiting the action to the words, however, I perceived that the stars were all wrong.That was my undoing. I had looked up unthinkingly, anticipating the familiar, and, finding it gone, began to cry like a baby. Whereupon Peter stopped the gig and took me in his arms, kissing me so that my face was soon sore both from kissing and crying.
Jennifer Paynter
When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief….Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.
Ranata Suzuki
So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever
Jay McLean
Blanchefleur felt a quick rush of affection for her. When the world frowned, Branwen went on smiling. There was a heart of steel under all that froth and bubble.
Suzannah Rowntree
Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.
Rachael Bermingham
Most of the things youfind yourself wantingwill have little or no bearingon the happiness in your life.
Domonique Bertolucci
If my like for you was a football crowd, you’d be deaf ’cause of the roar. And if my like for you was a boxer, there’d be a dead guy lying on the floor. And if my like for you was sugar, you’d lose your teeth before you were twenty. And if my like for you was money, let’s just say you’d be spending plenty.
Cath Crowley
One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.
Gillian Duce
Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes.
Cody Simpson