Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation. Michael Robotham More Quotes by Michael Robotham More Quotes From Michael Robotham I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day. Michael Robotham one-day different thinking If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am. Michael Robotham he-man want men People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope. Michael Robotham heart order children Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135) Michael Robotham parent hair children Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292) Michael Robotham sixty-minutes lasts remember Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy. Michael Robotham loneliness loss love-you That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life. Michael Robotham responsibility mistake pay Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time. Michael Robotham true-friend father lying 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 hard-work people thinking One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged. Michael Robotham balance strange together Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages. Michael Robotham aa-recovery alcoholics-anonymous hostage Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War. Michael Robotham me journalism war world A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage. Michael Robotham marriage boring hero perfect Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter. Michael Robotham partner you friends work I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life. Michael Robotham will you change life I write books that will make 10 or 12 hours disappear, and hopefully they'll resonate with you for a few days, where you'll remember the characters and the story. That suits me fine; I am happy with that. Michael Robotham i-am me you happy I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children. Michael Robotham dreams bad sleep children Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand. Michael Robotham story crime violence moments I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job. Michael Robotham job you crime violence All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different. Michael Robotham events real-life real life