“ I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders. Many men in Marius's position would have lain back in the bath water and demanded that they be scrubbed, s… Colleen McCullough
“ Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing. Colleen McCullough
“ Quand vous avancerez en âge, vous vous apercevez que la vie est faites de rencontres, de connaissances et de séparations. Parfois, nous aimons les gens que nous rencontrons, parfois, nous ne les aimon… Colleen McCullough
“ The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. Colleen McCullough
“ 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… Colleen McCullough
“ He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly. Colleen McCullough
“ He hadn't wooed her, but had simply claimed her. A gold mine ready to dig. There should have been a period of quiet dinners together, of flowers rather than diamonds, of kisses given after permission… Colleen McCullough
“ You still think love can save us. It's more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With hate, you just keep hitting back. You hit until they stop hitting back. With lo… Colleen McCullough
“ I have discovered," he said to Charles Dewy, "that when a man marries, peace of mind and freedom go out of the window.""Well, old boy," said Charles comfortably, "that's the price we have to pay for h… Colleen McCullough
“ 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… Colleen McCullough
“ Старость – самое жестокое мщение, которое на нас обрушивает мстительный бог. Почему он заодно не старит наши души?(«Поющие в терновнике») Colleen McCullough
“ Dr. Murray made it clear to me before I left that a woman who enhoys the Act is as loose as a harlot. God gives pleasure in it only to husbands. Women are the source of evil and temptation, therefore… Colleen McCullough
“ 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… Colleen McCullough
