Australian Author Quotes

“There is always stardust in my eyes when I look at you, my love.”
― Ellen Read, The Dragon Sleeps

“How beautiful the house was with its magnolia trees lining the drive, their branches outstretched as if they were beckoning him inside (Page 6)”
― Ellen Read, Love The Gift

“journalists fea their loss of authority in the digital age will undermine their ability to hold government to account. Yet the government has much more to worry about because the internet has empowered vested interests, and Oppositions, in a way that effectively cancel an election result within weeks of the final ballot being counted. p236”
― George Megalogenis, Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal

“Dreams
If I could mould the world
As if working with clay
I’d soften the hurt take the pain away
I’d paint the sky the brightest blue
With raindrops making wishes come true
The sun would shine so bright and strong
To dry the tears and right the wrongs”
― Deborah Hyland, For the Moment: An Anthology of Poems Straight From the Heart

“The argument that mining already paid its fair share [of tax] was also wrong.... On the figures the [Minerals] council supplied, mining enjoyed the fourteenth-lowest effective company-tax rate out of nineteen sectors. It paid a lower rate than manufacturing and construction, the very sectors it was crowding out. p196”
― George Megalogenis, Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal

“Rudd proved to be too conservative for the nation he led, while Gillard's campaign for re-election was too cynical. But the problem goes deeper than any individual's failure. Labor in office suffered a return of the identity crisis that has plagued it in its wilderness years in Opposition... the party had given up its soul to the machine. p208”
― George Megalogenis, Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal

“Government is weaker today because the public it serves is quicker to anger, and because the Opposition has realised the safest way back to power is opposition, not policy renewal. No mandate need be respected because the Opposition can trust the media to set impossible standards for government to meet. p237”
― George Megalogenis, Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal

“Alexandra gasped and fell backwards. The blood drained from her face as ice tracked through her veins. She scrambled back to the keyhole and stared at the men in the room.”
― Ellen Read, Alexandra & Edith's Escapades - The Diamond Ring

“I don’t want to hear what you’re being paid to say, Lotte. I want to know, if I were here with no money, would you still welcome me in your bed?”
Lotte nodded. “Yes, I would welcome you in my bed even if you were the poorest of men.” She kissed his chest lightly. “I don’t care who you are the son of, Devon.”
― Faye Hall, Shrouded Passions

“I can’t do this,” he said. “I won’t do this. I desire you more than any other woman I have ever shared a bed with, Bella, but I’ll be damned if I’ll stand back and knowingly share you. I’ve offered to help you, but I can’t do that unless you tell me what is going on.”
― Faye Hall, Heart of Stone

“I never meant to hurt you, Jarrah,” she apologized, her palms resting on his naked chest.
The mere touch of her fingertips caressing his chest sent his senses into turmoil. Was this woman really so innocent she didn’t know what she was putting him through?”
― Faye Hall, Deceit & Devotion

“I must say no woman has ever offered me her petticoat before.”
She giggled. “I was only offering you a way to dry your hands, not suggesting you wear it.”
― Faye Hall, Impassioned Deceit

“She raised an unbelieving brow. “How do I know you’re not just saying that so you might increase your chance of crawling under my skirt?”
His arms outstretched, he waved them casually around him. “Look around us. There is skirt aplenty, all of it ripe and willing for my taking.” His hands fell back to his side. “But I don’t want any of it. What I want is you.”
― Faye Hall, Avarice & Charity

“We burst into a love affair so forceful it scares me. I’m married again, to another man and have a child with him – should I be allowed such indulgent feelings for someone I thought I no longer loved?”
― Maria P Frino, Two Men in a Shed

“My Flower
A seed it was planted
Inside my heart
And as it started to grow
I was filled with joy
And overwhelmed
By the beauty someday it would show
I watered this seed
With wishes and dreams
And hoped for sun filled days
I watched from afar
As it started to bloom”
― Deborah Hyland, For the Moment: An Anthology of Poems Straight From the Heart

“Moments hanging by a thread
Tortured twisted memories
Where angels fear to tread
If I could put together the pieces
Of the the puzzle in my mind
I could finally become whole again
And fill the void inside”
― Deborah Hyland, For the Moment: An Anthology of Poems Straight From the Heart

“Liberty was the only small cat in the circus.
Walking across the stage on her hind legs, ears back, head held high; she would let the children shake her paw and stroke her lovely orange fur.”
― Desiree Milonas-King, Liberty the Circus Cat

“She would even ride a scooter. and toot its horn. Everyone knew when Liberty was on the stage.”
― Desiree Milonas-King, Liberty the Circus Cat

“There was a tiger in the circus too.
Her name was Tiger Princess.. Her act in the circus would be to balance on two boards, then leap over to a pool and have a swim. Princess loved to swim and splash.”
― Desiree Milonas-King, Liberty the Circus Cat

“The idea of discovery and consequent possession is used by those with neither the intelligence nor sensitivity to see the value in lives other than their own. Anyway, there is no need to possess anything when there is access to everything. It is only when someone says that your mother belongs to them that there is a problem.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

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― Joanne Speirs, Second Chance Love in Point Perry

“Time meant nothing.
She loved him in an instant.
She would love him forever.”

Murder at Thornton Park”
― Ellen Read, Murder at Thornton Park

“I like you but I feel like killing you at the same time. That's a peculiar talent you've got.”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow

“The cold of the granite seeps into my palm. A shiver runs down my spine. ‘Please tell them I’m sorry, and it’s all my fault.
'Second Chance Love in Point Perry”
― Joanne Speirs