Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count? — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it,… — 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
Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all… — 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
Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years? — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you?… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and… — 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… — 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 depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I can't wait to tell him one day," she says with a giggle. "'Hey, Chaz, guess what? We knew where your precious… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy. "And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming,"… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now?" he asks, digging his hands into the pockets of… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?" He loved the flush that appeared on… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Why are you smiling?' Gargarin asked Froi, from across the balconette. 'When you're going to have to learn a lesson in diplomacy… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans.… — 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
I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?" "I don't think you deserve my company but… — 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
