Melina Marchetta Quotes
It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.
And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.
I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless. Like I used to be.
You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.
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.
It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.
Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.
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.
They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.
Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second.
A piece of me is gone, " she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?
Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being tr
There's nothing to took forward to any more if you don't have dreams, " he said. "Because dreams are goals and John might have run out of goals. So he died.
Mercy', Finnikin said, grinning from ear to ear. 'We're going to have a bed full of children and I'll have to holler out to my wife, "Hello there! It's been a long time since we last spoke!
It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy.
He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.
A different Australia emerged in the 1950s. A multicultural one, and 30 years on we're still trying to fit in as ethnics and we're still trying to fit the ethnics in as Australians.
People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else.
They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty, ” they’d joke.Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.
Do not cry, ” she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. “Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.
We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion, " Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.
The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.
Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does.
Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys, ' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.
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".
Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
I'm scared to die, " I whispered as Michael walked in."He was scared to live, " he said kissing my forehead.
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 hope you're not smoking in front of her, ' Lucia says to him.'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia, ' he says, irritated.
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.
But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.
I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.
If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.
Does it help?” he asks. “The e-mailing.”She nods. “A tiny bit. It’s strange. You’re writing a letter to someone who’s never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.
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.
I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think.
You blame me for this, don't you?" he says."I don't need to. You're doing a better job.
