Time Quotes by Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

“I think it's about time to save myself”

— Melina Marchetta

“I think it's about time I saved myself”

— Melina Marchetta

Even five minutes of your time can make someone’s day,

— Melina Marchetta

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

— Melina Marchetta

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

“Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer…

— Melina Marchetta

“When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please?”

— Melina Marchetta

“Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.”

— Melina Marchetta

I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.

— Melina Marchetta

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week.…

— Melina Marchetta

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any…

— Melina Marchetta

“Japan." Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. Commit it to memory and make good use of it. Because if…

— Melina Marchetta

“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

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

“I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then…

— Melina Marchetta

“You can't go around feeling too much", Captain Travanion had explained watching a moment to ensure the man was indeed dead. "Because…

— Melina Marchetta

“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

“That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can…

— Melina Marchetta

“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

“What is she like? Evanjalin of the Monts?' he asked. Finnikin thought for a moment. 'Strong. In here,' he said, thumping his…

— Melina Marchetta

“Most times he knew there was no hope for Arjuro and Gargarin and Lirah and De Lancey. Too much pain in the…

— Melina Marchetta

“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

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

— 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

“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

“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

...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

“There’s a moment in [Anne of Green Gables] where Anne Shirley (great character) […] is in the same classroom as Gilbert Blythe…

— Melina Marchetta

“Each day, at the same time, Jude would return and they would be there, led by Webb, whose life could not have…

— Melina Marchetta

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those…

— Melina Marchetta

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our…

— Melina Marchetta

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the…

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

“In his time since Sarnak, Froi had come to learn as much about the power of silence as the power of words.”

— Melina Marchetta

And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of…

— Melina Marchetta

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

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from…

— Melina Marchetta

Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that…

— Melina Marchetta

And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi…

— Melina Marchetta