When She Was Good Quotes

“Smart means you know lots of shit. Clever means you can pretend you know it.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“People think they want the truth, but the opposite is true. Honesty is mean and rough and ugly, while lying can be kinder, softer and more humane. It’s not honesty that we want, but consideration and respect.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“... but I have grown accustomed to living alone, having one-sides conversations and arguments with myself that I still manage to lose.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“People think they want the truth, but the opposite is true. Honesty is mean and rough and ugly, while lying can be kinder, softer, and more humane. It’s not honesty that we want but consideration and respect.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“The world is getting faster just as I’m getting slower. I can’t keep up so I’ve stopped trying.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“heather near his body. The handle stands out starkly against the mauve flowers.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lost things. “You pray to him when you lose your car keys or your wallet or your phone, and he helps find them.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“Does anyone ever talk about the price of eggs?”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“His name is Lyle and he has a face like a ball of pizza dough with olives for eyes and anchovies for eyebrows.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“I might be in love with Cyrus, although I’m not sure if I’m capable of caring that much about another human being. I know I wouldn’t kill for love. I wouldn’t piss on love if it was on fire. I wouldn’t give love the time of day. I wouldn’t cross the road for love, or give up my seat on a bus, or share my last slice of pizza. But I would do all those things for Cyrus. Maybe that makes it more than love.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“hate”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“The jigsaw puzzles have so many missing pieces, we play a game called What the Fuck Is That.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“My beautiful black Labrador”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“Why do people think everything will be better if they pour boiling water on dried leaves?”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“is so fundamental to our existence; it is wired into our DNA. That’s why babies learn to fake cry before they’re a year old and to bluff by the age of two. By four a child is an accomplished liar, and by five, he or she realises that truly outrageous lies are less likely to be believed.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“The real power belongs to the people who control information,’ he says, still staring at the ground. ‘Individuals who can suppress stories, fix problems, spin news and plant false information”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“Every day may not be good,’ he said, ‘but there is something good in every day.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“The greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to break apart and compartmentalise. It’s how we juggle multiple demands, and how we cope with pain and trauma.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“The three biggest lies in the world are these: it gets better; everything will be OK;”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“The truth is a story. The truth is a habit. The truth is a compromise. The truth is a casualty. The truth died long ago.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“this: I have never met anyone who is so central to my existence that life without her seems incomprehensible, who I care more about than I do myself.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“Green’s first victim was found on the North York Moors, which is why the papers called him the ‘Beast of Whitby’. He went on to rape and kill at least two more children, one of whom he lured into his van using kittens that he’d collected from a local animal shelter. He pleaded guilty to the murders, but died within a year, beaten to death in a prison exercise yard”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

“Lying is so fundamental to our existence, it is wired into our DNA. That’s why babies learn to fake cry before they’re a year old and to bluff by the age of two. By four a child is an accomplished liar, and by five, he or she realizes that truly outrageous lies are less likely to be believed. People usually lie for all the right reasons and with the best possible intentions—to keep families together and to protect relationships and hold on to our friends and make people happy. These are the good lies, not the bad ones.”
― Michael Robotham, When She Was Good