“Froi thought for a moment. “I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I’d have… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Mercy', Finnikin said, grinning from ear to ear. 'We're going to have a bed full of children and I'll have to holler… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Despite her ability to enjoy most of their days, sometimes her despair was so great that, in a melancholy moment when she'd… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“The chorus of disapproval is like one of those formula songs that seem to hit number one all the time. You know… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Most times he knew there was no hope for Arjuro and Gargarin and Lirah and De Lancey. Too much pain in the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“I like looking at his face when he speaks. Sometimes he spit, actually he spits all the time, but I think that's… — 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
“From the stage Ben catches my eye. "This is for them, Taylor," he calls out as they begin to play. It's a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“This one time in Year Eight we had to write on butcher’s paper how we’d like people to see us. Remember ours?… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“There was this time when I looked at a picture and thought it was a man with horns, but when I stepped… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“But what if I don't?" she argued. "I don't know him. How can I love one that I don't know? I'm frightened… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I’d spent the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Are you calling us pigs?’ Froi asked, watching as Rafuel winced for the tenth time at the formality of Froi’s Charyn.Rafuel thought… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I… — 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
