What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others. "It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.… — 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
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
I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It’s a lazy walk but so… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I look at him. "It's odious," he says. "Detention?" I ask, confused. "Huh?" We have no idea what the other is talking… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. "Oh God,… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Coffee?" Santangelo calls down to us. We both look up. He,Ben, and Raffy are hanging over the side. "Is it espresso?" Anson… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate's mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is… — 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
I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I look around for the counter that sells my scent, but I'm so petrified that if I spray it in the air,… — 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… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?" "I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars… — 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
