Mother Quotes by Melina Marchetta

When I grow, I'm going to be my mother.

— Melina Marchetta

“When I grow up, I'm going to be my mother.”

— Melina Marchetta

“This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.”

— Melina Marchetta

“Just 'Your mother.'" But it doesn't work if girls say it to each other," she continues. "You have to have a penis…

— Melina Marchetta

“It becomes one of those defining moments in your life, when your mother does that”

— Melina Marchetta

Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between…

— Melina Marchetta

I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. "Oh God,…

— Melina Marchetta

So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly,…

— Melina Marchetta

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

Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at…

— Melina Marchetta

The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and…

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the…

— Melina Marchetta

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an…

— Melina Marchetta

My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but…

— Melina Marchetta

Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made…

— Melina Marchetta