Melina Marchetta Quotes

But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

You can't go around feeling too much.

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

Simple dreams are the hardest to come true

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.

Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.

I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.

The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.

I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood.

I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.

I love it when you're demented like this.

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Sometimes... sometimes keeping alive is too tiring," she whispered, wringing her hands. Before he knew what he was doing, he pressed his lips against her brow. "Don't ever say that. Ever.

Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road

You're good enough, Jacob.

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.

What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.

It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians