“and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breathe for the rest of my life” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and this one… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life!… — 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
If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“...he wanted to be all poetic, but in an instant he forgot Joe's poem about Japan except the part about 'you are… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the… — 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
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
“There will be no 'one day,'" I yell. "Because holidays are over, Griggs, and you and I are never going to cross… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“As he left Yata’s home that morning, he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“If I had to wish for something, just one thing, it would be that Hannah would never see Tate the way I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“My life isn't as bad as I make out and sometimes I think it's all in my head, but I can't help… — 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
