You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please?” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“In his time since Sarnak, Froi had come to learn as much about the power of silence as the power of words.” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“It becomes one of those defining moments in your life, when your mother does that” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead… — 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… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Mercy', Finnikin said, grinning from ear to ear. 'We're going to have a bed full of children and I'll have to holler… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Froi thought for a moment. “I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I’d have… — 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… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“I just stare at him. I want to ask him a thousand questions, but I can tell he doesn't want to be… — 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
“I like looking at his face when he speaks. Sometimes he spit, actually he spits all the time, but I think that's… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Most times he knew there was no hope for Arjuro and Gargarin and Lirah and De Lancey. Too much pain in the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“You're going to go living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“There was this time when I looked at a picture and thought it was a man with horns, but when I stepped… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well,… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“The chorus of disapproval is like one of those formula songs that seem to hit number one all the time. You know… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“But what if I don't?" she argued. "I don't know him. How can I love one that I don't know? I'm frightened… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week.… — 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
How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again? — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our… — 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
