Melina Marchetta

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

— Melina Marchetta

“Webb read fantasy; Jude read realism”

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

You can't go around feeling too much.

— Melina Marchetta

Causing a riot is what I do best.

— Melina Marchetta

“Truth is dangerous.”

— Melina Marchetta

“Love always, Always , Tom”

— Melina Marchetta

You just have to belong. Long to be.

— Melina Marchetta

I love it when you're demented like this.

— Melina Marchetta

They either don't get it or don't want to. Maybe I'm just not selling it well.

— Melina Marchetta

“You are mistaking me for someone with choices, Froi. I don't have choices.”

— Melina Marchetta

See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

— Melina Marchetta

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

— Melina Marchetta

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

— Melina Marchetta

Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.

— Melina Marchetta

She misses him more now than when he was away

— Melina Marchetta

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of…

— Melina Marchetta

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

— Melina Marchetta

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a…

— Melina Marchetta

She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.

— Melina Marchetta

“I think were made up of all these different pieces an every time someone goes your left with less of yourself.”

— Melina Marchetta

“So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around? What will be left…

— Melina Marchetta

“We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.”

— Melina Marchetta

I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.

— Melina Marchetta

“Near the window, Finnikin stood with both hands against the wall, his head bent over her. As always, the intimacy between them…

— Melina Marchetta

...what was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us," Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini…

— Melina Marchetta

“When he felt her fingers, he flinched; he had not been touched with such gentleness since his childhood. He was no stranger…

— Melina Marchetta

I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead…

— Melina Marchetta

No. But it's like the argument 'don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that…

— Melina Marchetta

If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person…

— Melina Marchetta

“He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fucked way, is tuned…

— Melina Marchetta

Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating…

— Melina Marchetta

“No. We were jealous that Lirah had Gargarin. Cold, cold Lirah, who was bitter towards all men, loved my brother with all…

— Melina Marchetta

“She looks at Sam. 'Close your ears if you don't want to know what I suspect to be the sex of your…

— Melina Marchetta

We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock." "Cows?" Anson…

— Melina Marchetta

“Have you ever seen The Last of the Mohicans ?" "I love it." "Really?" I'm over the moon. We share a movie.…

— Melina Marchetta

The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is…

— Melina Marchetta

The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and…

— Melina Marchetta

“Scatter?” Tate said. “Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?” “Because we’ll never know how great this place is until we…

— Melina Marchetta

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