The Wreckage Quotes

“Here you can shoot the bad guys,' a mercenary says in Baghdad. 'In America we give them corporate bonuses.”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairy tale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From the richest to the poorest, we start and end with family.”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“You’re scared of dying.’ ‘Better than being scared of living.”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“windows are ringed with dark shadows of soot that leak like a beauty queen’s tears”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“looking”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“We are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular. EDWARD R. MURROW”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. GEORGE ORWELL”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“What makes a man who has a woman who loves him risk it all?” “Are you asking me or Him?” “You.” Ruiz rubs his forehead. “Sometimes when a man feels bad about himself, he doesn’t want to be with a woman who looks at him with nothing but love. Instead he wants to lie on top of a woman who knows how nasty and shallow and faithless he can be… a woman who doesn’t put him on a pedestal or expect him to be a knight in shining armor… a woman who’s happy with the worst he can be.”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“Sometimes when a man feels bad about himself, he doesn’t want to be with a woman who looks at him with nothing but love. Instead he wants to lie on top of a woman who knows how nasty and shallow and faithless he can be … a woman who doesn’t put him on a pedestal or expect him to be a knight in shining armour … a woman who’s happy with the worst he can be.”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“Some people will find their own grave too crowded.”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage

“A thought passes across the driver's face. Ruiz has always referred to it as the Dirty Harry moment-that fleeting instant when a person wonders: Am I fast enough or lucky enough?”
― Michael Robotham, The Wreckage