The Thorn Birds

The Thorn Birds1983

The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by the Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda—a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland—the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans th… more »



Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese:
When your rose fell to the ground, I understood at last, the sadness you always wear like a holy mantle.

Ralph de Bricassart:
Oh Vittorio, I have tried so hard to get her out of my heart.

Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese:
You think I don't know that?

Ralph de Bricassart:
Then why?

Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese:
Ralph, 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.

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