Michael Robotham

“Women think they want a man but instead they want”

— Michael Robotham

Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.

— Michael Robotham

“The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.”

— Michael Robotham

“Life is short. Love is vast. Live like there’s no tomorrow.”

— Michael Robotham

“Don’t say anything unless you can improve on the silence.”

— Michael Robotham

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

— Michael Robotham

“I know the answer now, but I’m so frightened I’ve forgotten the question.”

— Michael Robotham

“Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.”

— Michael Robotham

“Here you can shoot the bad guys,' a mercenary says in Baghdad. 'In America we give them corporate bonuses.”

— Michael Robotham

“We need the darkness to appreciate the light, and the bumps along the road to stop us falling asleep at the wheel.”

— Michael Robotham

I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier…

— Michael Robotham

“You know its going to be a bad day when you are having a prostate examination and you feel both of your…

— Michael Robotham

“I did that,” says my memory. “I could not have done that,” says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—​​the memory yields.”

— Michael Robotham

“Some lids are best kept closed, glued, nailed, screwed down and buried under six feet of earth.”

— Michael Robotham

“I used to say I would pay good money to forget most of my life. Now I want the memories back.”

— Michael Robotham

“I think that sometimes you can forget what the truth is if you hear a lie often enough.”

— Michael Robotham

“A thought passes across the driver's face. Ruiz has always referred to it as the Dirty Harry moment-that fleeting instant when a…

— Michael Robotham

“Norman Mailer said there were four stages in a marriage: first the affair then the marriage, then children and then finally the…

— Michael Robotham

“Fleetingly, unnervingly, I understand what he's saying but cannot accept a world that is so brutally black and white. Murder, rape and…

— Michael Robotham

“Why give me this life and then give me this disease? Why give me joy and beauty of you and Charlie and…

— Michael Robotham

“Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain…

— Michael Robotham

“Children are like time capsules that we shoot into the future, hoping there will still be a world for them to inherit.…

— Michael Robotham

“You try to understand human behavior. You try to explain it. Not me. I know we're smaller than gorillas, bigger than chimps,…

— Michael Robotham

“…And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or…

— Michael Robotham

“Anyone who says honesty is the best policy is living in la-la land. Either that or they have never been married or…

— Michael Robotham

“I don't know why people keep trying to help me like this. They should be heading for the hills. Ali says I…

— Michael Robotham

“I know I should have ignored her. I should have called. Many times I almost did. I got as far as picking…

— Michael Robotham

“Sometimes I wake at night and worry that I might have disappeared in my sleep. That's what happens when nobody cares about…

— Michael Robotham

“There is a moment when all hope disappears, all pride is gone, all expectation, all faith, all desire. I own that moment.…

— Michael Robotham

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't.…

— Michael Robotham

Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear…

— Michael Robotham

Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and…

— Michael Robotham

“Friendship is a difficult thing to define. Oscar here is my oldest friend. How would you define friendship, Oscar?" Oscar grunts slightly,…

— Michael Robotham

“My other chore is to buy a tree- a thankless task. The only truly well-proportioned Christmas trees are the ones they use…

— Michael Robotham

“I’ve been called a skank, a whore, a whinger, and a slut.”

— Michael Robotham

“there are so many ways to move forward and only one way to stand still.”

— Michael Robotham

“I feel sorry for hookers these days—how do they stand out anymore?”

— Michael Robotham

“The worst hour of your life is only sixty minutes long”

— Michael Robotham

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

— Michael Robotham

“Loving children is easy. Keeping them is hard.”

— Michael Robotham