Thinking Quotes by Melina Marchetta

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

— Melina Marchetta

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

— Melina Marchetta

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

— Melina Marchetta

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

Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

— Melina Marchetta

Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of…

— Melina Marchetta

I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

— Melina Marchetta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But…

— Melina Marchetta

...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

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

— Melina Marchetta

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

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

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

What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now?" he asks, digging his hands into the pockets of…

— Melina Marchetta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word…

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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

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