Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1) QUOTES

2 " I've discovered the secret of revenge. Outlive the f---ers! I'll dance on their graves. "

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

4 " Muhammad Ali has a lot to answer for. When he lit the flame at the Atlanta Olympics there wasn't a dry eye on the planet. Why were we crying? Because a great sportsman had been reduced to this-a shuffling, mumbling, twitching cripple. A man who once danced like a butterfly now shook like blancmange.

We always remember sportsmen. When the body deserts a scientist like Stephan Hawking we figure that he'll be able to live in his mind, but a crippled athlete is like a bird with a broken wing. When you soar the heights the landing is harder. "

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

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

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

8 " Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not. "

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

10 " People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful. "

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

12 " I try to explain how people react when overwhelmed by confusion and negative emotions. Some drink too much. Others overeat or beat their wives or kick the cat. And a surprising number hold their hands against a hot plate or slice open their skin with a razor blade. It's an extreme coping mechanism. They talk about their inner pain being turned outward. By giving it a physical manifestation they find it easier to deal with. (35) "

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

14 " What is the point of sharing your life with someone if you can't communicate with them about the things that matter? "

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

16 " My other chore is to buy a tree- a thankless task. The only truly well-proportioned Christmas trees are the ones they use in advertisements. If you try and find one in real life you face inevitable disapointment. Your tree will lean to the left or the right. It will be too bushy at the base, or straggly at the top. Even if you do, by some miracle, find a perfect tree, if won't fit in the car and by the time you strap it to the rooftop and drive it home the branches are broken and twisted out of shape. You
wrestle it through the door, gagling on pine needles and sweating profusely, only to hear the maddening question from countless Christmases past: 'Is that really the best one you could find? "

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

18 " Did you ever see the Truman Show?...Well sometimes I think I’m Truman. I think the whole world is watching me. My life has been created by someone else’s expectations. Everything is a façade. The walls are plywood and the furniture is papier-mâché. And then I think that if I could just run fast enough, I’d get around the next corner and find the back lot of the film set. But I can never run fast enough. By the time I arrive, they’ve built another street… and another. "

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

20 " Do you know that if you close your eyes really tightly, so you can see stars, when you open them again it's a brand new world. "

― Michael Robotham , Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)