Life or Death Quotes

“Resentment is like swallowing a poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Life is short. Love is vast. Live like there's no tomorrow.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“If I gave up sarcasm that would leave interpretive dance as my only way of communicating.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savor every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realize we can never know more than we don’t know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“So when you start getting scared, remember that the longest night is only eight hours and the longest hour is only sixty minutes. Dawn is always going to come - unless you don’t want it to.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Closing his eyes, he feels the weight of the angel as she straddles his thighs. She leans forward, her breath on his cheek, her lips close to his ear, whispering, ‘Remember your promise.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Specialists debated whether to pull the plug, but Texas only executes people on death row, not when they’re brain-dead, because it might mean culling most of their politicians.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he’d become a walking suicide note.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“He didn’t lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from his life all superfluous sentiment, all longings and all patience for the nonessential. He was like Yoda, Buddha and the Gladiator all rolled into one.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“To their west a jungle of clouds has swallowed the sun before it dips below the horizon. It’s like watching a flame burn through a soggy piece of newspaper.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“She looked over a shoulder, a gesture he would never get over, a moment fixed in his mind—the perfection of her skin, the music in her laughter; her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching. And he knew at that precise moment that he would always yearn for Belita, whether they spent their lives together or if they parted that evening and he never saw her again.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Convicts are experts at killing time because they age in dog years.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“People talk about there being sliding doors or forks in the road when lives take a different course. Sometimes it’s only later, in retrospect, that we recognize we even had a choice.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“For a man with no cows you talk a lot of bullshit, Ryan.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“It’s showing Fox News—fair and balanced for those who like falling over.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn’t feel like a death plummet.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“I’m so short I tread water in the kiddie pool. I need a ladder to get to the bottom bunk. I hit my head on the ground when I sneeze. I need a running start to reach the toilet. And no, I’m not related to Tom Cruise.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Audie had never been a hater, because when people hate with too much energy it’s normally something about themselves they hate the most.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Audie could stare into the distance like he was looking across an ocean, or watching sparks floating above a campfire. He could make a cell seem like it had no walls.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“life is about getting the next footstep right.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Life is short. Love is vast. Live like there’s no tomorrow.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Late afternoon he pulls up outside a white painted Baptist church with a wooden cross on the front wall above a sign that reads, JESUS DOESN'T NEED TO TWEET. pg 138”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“The cab drops Audie outside the Texas Children's Hospital. Money changes hands and the driver looks at the cash and suggests he deserves a tip. Audie says he should be nicer to his mother and gets a reply that no mother would approve of. pg.132”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“She’s been used more often than a jailhouse condom.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“...she could move Audie, who felt as though he was staring into the depths of a well. All he had to do was fall.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death