Quote 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,…

— Colleen McCullough

“For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.”

— 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…

— Colleen McCullough

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

— 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…

— 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…

— Colleen McCullough

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Colleen McCullough

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

— Colleen McCullough

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

— Colleen McCullough