The Thorn Birds Quotes

“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 love... they never stop." ~ (Frank)”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“A man who has nothing to lose have everything to gain, and a man without feelings cannot hurt.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“Что толку томиться по человеку, если он все равно твоим никогда не будет?”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“..Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it make us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with a thorn in it's breast, singing it's heart out and dying. Because it has to, it's driven to. 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 has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds