Life Quotes by Melina Marchetta

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

You're the father of the person who is my life.

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

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“and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breathe for the rest of my life”

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“[Jonah Griggs] is similar to a hawke and a wolf and Will Trombal – he mates for life.”

— Melina Marchetta

“It becomes one of those defining moments in your life, when your mother does that”

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“I've wept enough in my life. I have no tears left.”

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How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find…

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

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“Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my…

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

— Melina Marchetta

“Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer…

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A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place…

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They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then…

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What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.…

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“I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if…

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And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of…

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“Japan." Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. Commit it to memory and make good use of it. Because if…

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“That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can…

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And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an…

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When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had…

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What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the…

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Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive…

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“He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can…

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“you do that all the time you know. you ask me questions when you know the answer will piss you off. ask…

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“Just say after Wednesday we never see each-" "Don't" he says, angry. "Jonah, you live six hundred kilometres away from me," I…

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“You're going to go living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to…

— Melina Marchetta

“This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and this one…

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And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an…

— Melina Marchetta

You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on…

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“As he left Yata’s home that morning, he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he…

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“If I had to wish for something, just one thing, it would be that Hannah would never see Tate the way I…

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“Froi saw the rage in Arjuro’s eyes, his clenched fists. ‘If I could find the men who did those things to you…

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“How can someone who made me look this happy no longer be in my life”

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In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have.…

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I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

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

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Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it…

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I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life!…

— Melina Marchetta