Melina Marchetta, On The Jellicoe Road Quotes
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.
How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?
He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".
And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.
If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.
I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.
At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.