Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive.” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“...I don't believe you should be a virgin when you get married,' Sera said. 'You should experiment. Men do' 'Yes, but only… — 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
“And he saw it in her eyes. Still. The belief that there could be someone other than herself. You, he wanted to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“I remember love. It's what I have to keep on reminding myself. It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking that after last night you shouldn't have to spend your morning in a hospital finding out if my mother has… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“He's my father!" she bellowed, pointing to Trevanion. "Vestie!" Beatriss said firmly, stopping to stare up at her. "I'll snip at the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“When he felt her fingers, he flinched; he had not been touched with such gentleness since his childhood. He was no stranger… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the… — 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
“Maybe my guard was up all the time and she was reacting to that. But I wish she had seen through it… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Just say after Wednesday we never see each-" "Don't" he says, angry. "Jonah, you live six hundred kilometres away from me," I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Two best friends traveled from the Burdekin in North Queensland sometime in the 1960s and walked into the Union and fell in… — 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
“I trace his face with my fingers, 'Let me see. A guy tells me that he would have thrown himself in front… — 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
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
“Froi fell in love. He didn't want to. Not with a Charyn city. But he did because people didn't stand around in… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name, — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“No. We were jealous that Lirah had Gargarin. Cold, cold Lirah, who was bitter towards all men, loved my brother with all… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And do you want to hear something that was breaking my heart, day after day? I forgot the faces of my granddaughters… — 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
