Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name, — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?" "I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?" He loved the flush that appeared on… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
“you do that all the time you know. you ask me questions when you know the answer will piss you off. ask me a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
“When I saw "Ulysses" on Georgie's bedside table and Tom Finch's name written on it in a scrawl so like my old man's, I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
“Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
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… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
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… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
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.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
