An Unconscious Healing

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds