Quotes by Graeme Simsion

“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”

“I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

“I've sequenced the questions for maximum speed of elimination, I explained. I believe I can eliminate most women in less than forty seconds. Then you can choose the topic of discussion for the rema...”

“If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.”

“Do not mess with this man's threads!”

“Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept”

“Lost love belongs in a three-minute song, pullling back feelings from a time when they came unbidden, recalling the infatuation, the walking on sunshine that cannot last and the pain of its loss, w...”

“Humans should be permanently under development.”

“The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability.”

“An inability (or reduced ability) to empathise is not the same as an inability to love. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.”

“I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.”

“I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, shes a bit full of herself.”

“I watched as Humphrey Bogarts character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergmans character, and chose logic and decency ahe...”

“I've sequenced the questions for maximum speed of elimination,’ I explained. ‘I believe I can eliminate most women in less than forty seconds. Then you can choose the topic of discussion for the re...”

“I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she’s a bit full of herself.”

“I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s character, and chose logic and decency a...”