Heart Quotes by Melina Marchetta

16 Heart quotes by Melina Marchetta

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Marchetta writes with a tender honesty that resonates across ages; these 16 quotations capture the pulse of her characters’ journeys and the beating hope that guides them.

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“Despite her ability to enjoy most of their days, sometimes her despair was so great that, in a melancholy moment when she'd…

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Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for…

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

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

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Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about…

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She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held…

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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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And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi…

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“She told him that from this angle the treetops looked like cauliflower and she had once heard them beckon her to jump,…

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If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I’d spent the…

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Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over…

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

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Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what…

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The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered…

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“Maybe my guard was up all the time and she was reacting to that. But I wish she had seen through it…

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“He held her against him and for once he understood what she had felt every day that he had known her”

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“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…

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Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

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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…

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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…

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

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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.…

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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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