Melina Marchetta Quotes

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.

Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.

A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?

Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.

Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.

You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.

I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

When I grow, I'm going to be my mother.

Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

We don't even love each other. I do a bit, you know. You do what a bit? You know. Like you...whatever...love you a bit. I think I kind of love you too.

Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name.

I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.

She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

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

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 [...]

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

You're good enough, Jacob.

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

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

If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down and I'll wake up in a morgue.

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.

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 can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

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

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