Melina Marchetta

“You don't use words like 'kind of interested' to describe how I feel about you.”

— Melina Marchetta

“I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being…

— Melina Marchetta

Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these…

— Melina Marchetta

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those…

— Melina Marchetta

“I see the look on her face that says nothing can happen to her if she's holding on to her dad. It…

— Melina Marchetta

“Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage are in his soul. Just in case”

— 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 determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.”

— Melina Marchetta

When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who…

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

“He was impressed and surprised and, more than anything, he was intrigued. He was growing to enjoy the way her eyes squinted…

— Melina Marchetta

“She shrugged. "I don't have my horse anymore." " Your horse? The horse was mine." "Don't be ridiculous." Evanjalin continued walking up…

— Melina Marchetta

What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most…

— Melina Marchetta

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the…

— Melina Marchetta

“I was wrong, I thought to myself. I honestly believed it. Not because Sister Louise told me or because she made me…

— Melina Marchetta

Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their…

— Melina Marchetta

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

“As soon as Santangelo and Raffy’s heads go under, Griggs leans over and kisses me. It’s a hungry kind of kiss, like…

— Melina Marchetta

Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what…

— Melina Marchetta

“Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw. "I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more.…

— Melina Marchetta

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

“Anabel shrugs. “Then take an earlier flight today so you get to see her at the airport, stupid.” Tom shakes his head.…

— Melina Marchetta

“We could look at the side of wonder,’ Gargarin said. ‘What?’ Froi asked, as if Gargarin had gone insane. ‘Well, let’s say…

— Melina Marchetta

“These guys fart a lot as well. I'm not saying that girls don't. We just aren't as passionate about them. The smell…

— Melina Marchetta

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

— Melina Marchetta

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

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans.…

— Melina Marchetta

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place…

— Melina Marchetta

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road

— Melina Marchetta

Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.

— Melina Marchetta

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can…

— Melina Marchetta

Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.

— Melina Marchetta

“Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them in the face…

— Melina Marchetta

I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in. "He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.

— Melina Marchetta

All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to…

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly,…

— Melina Marchetta

Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is…

— Melina Marchetta

There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning…

— Melina Marchetta