Michael Robotham Quotes

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Michael Robotham
“As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fated, or written in our DNA, or forced upon us by shitty parents, or careless teachers, or cruel friendships. Evil is not a state, it is a ‘property’, and when a person is in possession of enough ‘property’, it sometimes begins to define them.”
Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl

Michael Robotham
“Os antigos Gregos costumavam dizer que a Sorte era uma mulher muito bonita de cabelo encaracolado que caminhava na rua entre as pessoas. Talvez o seu nome fosse Karma. É uma amante inconstante, uma mulher prudente, uma rameira e uma adepta do Manchester United. Costumava ser minha.”
Michael Robotham, Suspect

Michael Robotham
“Why do people think everything will be better if they pour boiling water on dried leaves?”
Michael Robotham, When She Was Good

Michael Robotham
“... she is more than the sum of her parts.”
Michael Robotham

Michael Robotham
“... everything I want is on the other side of fear.”
Michael Robotham, Storm Child

Michael Robotham
“That's what education does - helps you come up with the right word at the right time.”
Michael Robotham, Storm Child

Michael Robotham
“... children find it difficult to recall memories chronologically because they don't have enough experience to link events to a particular moment in their life. They lack a mental calender they can reference.”
Michael Robotham, Storm Child

Michael Robotham
“... as though men were the solution to every problem.”
Michael Robotham, Storm Child

Haruki Murakami
“And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
Haruki Murakami

Michael Robotham
“..when one is confronted by a complex problem, it is sometimes best to solve the easiet part of it first...”
Michael Robotham, Storm Child

Michael Robotham
“... I sometimes question whether philanthropy changes anything, or whether it perpetuates the status quo: the historic power imbalance that keeps the disadvantaged in their place.”
Michael Robotham, Storm Child

Michael Robotham
“Introspection leads to self-analysis, which leads to self-hatred.”
Michael Robotham, Storm Child

Michael Robotham
“We exist before we are born and after we die.”
Michael Robotham, Storm Child