See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are… — 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
Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Who do you hang out with?" Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are,… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you?… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“sometimes he feels a pull towards Francesca. She was the reason he came into the group. It was her misery that united… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?" "I don't think you deserve my company but… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me? — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
