Good Girl, Bad Girl Quotes

“Some parents expect too much of their children and others expect too little. Both can be equally damaging.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fated or written in our DNA or forced upon us by shitty parents or careless teachers or cruel friendships. Evil is not a state; it is a “property,” and when a person is in possession of enough “property,” it sometimes begins to define them.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fated, or written in our DNA, or forced upon us by shitty parents, or careless teachers, or cruel friendships. Evil is not a state, it is a ‘property’, and when a person is in possession of enough ‘property’, it sometimes begins to define them.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“To misquote Mark Twain: It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Maybe that's what's keeping me awake - the choices.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“How does anyone know what’s true or real? Things we once accepted as facts are now accepted as being wrong. The earth is not flat, smoking isn’t good for us, Pluto isn’t a planet, witches weren’t burnt at the stake in Salem, and humans have more than five senses. Everything has a half-life—even facts.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Michael Leunig cartoon showing a tiny sad-eyed man with a noose around his neck. The rope was curled over a beam with a large bucket tied to the other end. As the man cried, his tears filled the bucket and lifted him higher and higher off the ground. Evie is that figure, standing on her tiptoes, filling a bucket with”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“During our sessions I talked to Jack about the difference between chance and luck. Chance is a random outcome in the real world whereas luck is the value we place upon it when we label it good or bad. Whether the police find Jodie’s phone isn’t lucky or unlucky, it’s the same chance event.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Chance is a random outcome in the real world whereas luck is the value we place upon it when we label it good or bad.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“photographs and posters of skaters, some of whom I recognize but can’t name. Katarina Witt is among them, as well as Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“1920s by a neuropsychologist called Alexander Luria, who published a famous book.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Guilt has to fall somewhere when logic fails.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“A slow death, I know, but that's life, isn't it - a long, drawn-out suicide.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“salvation is available on a weekly payment plan—all credit cards accepted.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Every society gets the criminals it deserves”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gets us into trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just isn’t so.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Grab my hand, I’ll lift you out,” but the man waves to him and says, “God will save me.” Finally, a helicopter hovers overhead and a crewman throws down a rope ladder. The drowning man ignores the offer, saying, “Don’t worry, God will save me.” Moments later he crashes over the waterfall and perishes on the rocks below. Later, at the Gates of Heaven, he says to God, “Hey, didn’t you see me down there? Why didn’t you save me?” And God replies, “I tried three times, but you turned me away.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Farley goes quiet. I let the silence build until it fills every corner of the room. It leaks into his ears and his chest and his bladder and his bowels and every dark place in his mind. Very few people are comfortable with silence. It's one thing to be on a plane or in a train carriage or in a waiting room and to ignore those around you, but not when you know someone is expecting you to answer.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“Every society gets the criminals it deserves” is her philosophy. “And the police force it’s willing to pay for, rather than the one it insists upon.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

“People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Losing a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows hope.”
― Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl