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> [Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/twelve-thousand-miles-of-it-to-the-other-side-of-the-world-and/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

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## More by Colleen McCullough

> [The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/the-bird-with-the-thorn-in-its-breast-it-follows-an-immutable-law-it/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [“For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/for-the-best-is-only-bought-at-the-cost-of-great-pain/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/my-fictitious-characters-will-take-the-bit-between-their-teeth-and/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/i-want-to-know-what-they-look-like-their-height-and-colouring/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/old-age-is-an-ordeal-of-flesh-and-mind-of-winding-down-of-slowing/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [“But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/but-not-we-men-we-weren-t-fit-to-be-told-for-so-you-women-think-and/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/how-frightening-that-one-person-could-mean-so-much-so-many-things/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [“It's not worth getting upset about, Mrs. Dominic. Down in the city they don't know how the other half lives, and they can afford…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/it-s-not-worth-getting-upset-about-mrs-dominic-down-in-the-city-they/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/you-still-think-love-can-save-us-it-s-more-killing-than-hate-hate-is/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/you-still-think-love-can-save-us-it-s-more-killing-than-hate-hate-is-2/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/if-you-love-people-they-kill-you-if-you-need-people-they-kill-you/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [“The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/the-law-should-not-be-a-huge-and-weighty-slab-which-falls-upon-a-man/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/duty-the-most-indecent-of-all-obsessions-was-only-another-name-for/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/there-is-no-doubt-that-it-is-more-difficult-to-read-and-more/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

> [It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-mccullough/it-s-a-woman-s-book-but-i-think-the-men-will-read-it-too/)

[Colleen McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-mccullough/)

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