Colleen McCullough Quotes

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...

Dr. Murray made it clear to me before I left that a woman who enhoys the Act is as loose as a harlot...

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the out...

Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. ...

Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity som...

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creatu...

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

I have discovered," he said to Charles Dewy, "that when a man marries, peace of mind and freedom go ...

Luke’s not a bad man, or even an unlikable one,” she went on. “Just a man. You’re all the same, grea...

Rain, rain, rain. Like a benediction from some vast inscrutable hand, long withheld, finally given. ...

Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Meggie dropped to her knees, scrambling frantically to collect the miniature clothes before more dam...

And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to ...

Do you realize that you've been married to me for just about half of your entire life?"Her head came...

He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too.

Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the...

We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we're going to do is sanctified by m...

He hadn't wooed her, but had simply claimed her. A gold mine ready to dig. There should have been a ...

He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bir...