The Secrets She Keeps Quotes

“She says I should reach out and build bridges, but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it’s a shame some people can’t be on them when it happens.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“We need the darkness to appreciate the light, and the bumps along the road to stop us falling asleep at the wheel.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“My love for a child will be greater than my love for an adult because it is a singular love that isn’t based on physical attraction, or shared experiences, or the pleasures of intimacy, or time together. It is unconditional, immeasurable, unshakeable.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“I feel sorry for hookers these days—how do they stand out anymore?”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“They trap us like that - babies- with one look they can take hold of our hearts because our hearts have no defences against such beauty and fragility.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“is so strange, this life we lead. We search for happiness, but so much is about survival. Existence. We try to manage expectations, but really we’re treading water, wasting time, or contemplating lives we might have led. Pretty soon we’re like every other godless, money-hungry, backstabbing, jaded, jealous human being, wishing we were richer, prettier, younger, luckier, or could do it all over again.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“The value of a secret depends upon whom you’re trying to keep it from.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we’re standing still.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper,”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“How dare I complain. I was born in the right time and right place to the right family. I met a man and we built a life together. Yet sometimes even the most charmed existence can change in the blink of an eye, or turn on the length of an eyelash. One moment of indecision. A cancer cell. A rogue gene. A wrong turn. A red light. A drunk driver. A cruel piece of misfortune.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“Today was not ours, but there’s always tomorrow.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“People, not places, make a life whole.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“His freckles have faded but must riot every summer across his nose and cheeks.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“there are so many ways to move forward and only one way to stand still.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it’s a shame some people can’t be on them when it happens.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“Maybe that’s the fate of someone who spends his life delving into other people’s minds – listening to their worst fears, unmasking their flaws and discovering their motives. Maybe a man like that begins to rust or seize up – haunted by too many ghosts in the machine.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“He told me we had to “move forward,” which is a term that I’ve never understood. The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we’re standing still.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“There is no comfort in being a statistical exception. It's like having a rare disease or being the victim of outrageous misfortune - you keep asking yourself, Why me? Why not someone else?”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“Giggling like schoolgirls we dry our hair. Meg looks like Andie McDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral. I look like Janet Leigh in Psycho before the knife starts shredding the shower curtain.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“Most of the guys were drunk, checking out the teenage girls in their crotch-defying dresses and fuck-me heels. I feel sorry for hookers these days - how do they stand out any more?”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“They trap us like that—babies—with one look they can take hold of our hearts because our hearts have no defenses against such beauty and fragility.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“I ONCE DISMISSED FAITH BECAUSE I VIEWED IT FROM AN INTELLECTUAL STANDPOINT, BUT FAITH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INTELLECT.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“I realized that life is a series of good-byes and I had to make sure that I didn’t waste my days or use them up too soon.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“The whole idea of getting married and having children terrifies me. What if becoming a parent doesn’t make me grow up? It could be just a cheap disguise.
It’s not cheap.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“Children are like time capsules that we shoot into the future, hoping there will still be a world for them to inherit. I don’t know if they are chips off the same block, or if one apple has fallen farther from the tree, but what does it matter? They are loved. Longed for. Ours.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“She has a first-class mind and third-class morals, which is exactly what I need right now”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“Please,”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps

“I’ve been called a skank, a whore, a whinger, and a slut.”
― Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps