"The Thorn Birds"

I like this book and I read all of the 550 pages before I know it. It's an interesting story about the passions everyone has, those passions that we know they will kill us. Choices we make and pay for them for a lifetime, but we're never sorry about it, because it was our only way.

Here are some memorable quotes:

- There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
-What does it mean, Father?
- That the best... is bought only at the cost of great pain.

-What kind of man is this Luke O'Neill, who roams about and doesn't even make a home for Meggie?
- The ambitious kind.

Our God has given us freewill. And with that freewill comes the burden of choice. It is time, far past time that you took up that burden, because until you do, you cannot go on.

And there's nothing I can do to change it. Do you know how terrifying it is, that power you have over me?

Don't do to Meggie what you did to Mary Carson. Don't destroy her with love!