"Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility."
- Colleen McCullough
"And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our d..."
"Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the very moment of their unraveling?...Sometimes, all the miles between are as nothing, sometimes, they..."
"The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more."
"He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too."
"How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things."
"Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled..."
"We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world..."
"Luke’s not a bad man, or even an unlikable one,” she went on. “Just a man. You’re all the same, great big hairy moths bashing yourselves to pieces after a silly flame behind a glass so clear your eyes..."
"Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection."