“The Thorn Birds” sentence starters
“There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone’s heart.”
“Each of us has something within us which won’t be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die.”
“We are what we are, that’s all.”
“Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it’s the most wonderful song the world has ever heard.”
“Don’t you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost.”
“All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.”
“There is a legend about a bird which sings only once in it’s life, more beautifully than any other creature on the face of the earth.”
“But when we press the thorn to our breast, we know, we understand…. and still, we do it.”
“Belief doesn’t rest on proof or existence…it rests on faith…without faith there is nothing.”
“The best is only bought at the cost of great pain.”
“What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance? ”
“If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!”
“Truly God was good, to make man so blind.”
“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 hate, you just keep hitting. You hit until they stop hitting back. With love… They never stop.”
“Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world.”
“They would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.”
“There was some justice in his pain.”
“It’s not worth getting upset about.”
“Down in the city they don’t know how the other half lives.”
“Out here it’s different.”
“We’re working-class people, which means we don’t get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.”
“We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can’t affect or change the outcome, can it?”
“I can’t share your love of God”
“Each of us has within us something that just won’t be denied.”
“I don’t know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I’ll strangle him with his own invention”
“We weren’t fit to be told.”
“You complacent, conceited, self-centered bastard! “
“You can’t make love for toffee!”
“Oh, go away! I can’t bare to look at you anymore!”
“Oh, the cruelty of youth.”
“How will we live without him.”
“Your God gathers in the good ones… and leaves the living to hose of us whom fail.”
“Your greedy God! There is no peace with him!”
“I’m so glad I’m not dying.”
“What would I ever do without you?”
“Oh silly. You’ll never be without me.”
“You’ve the face of an angel and the body of a goddess.”
“And since that day, I have somehow known, though I never saw you again, that my last thought this side of the grave would be of you.”
“And there’s nothing I can do to change it.”
“Do you know how terrifying it is, that power you have over me?”
“It’s as if you never remember that.”
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