I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
They either don't get it or don't want to. Maybe I'm just not selling it well. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around? What will be left… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.… — 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… — 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
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
And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like… — 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… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It’s a lazy walk but so… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Coffee?" Santangelo calls down to us. We both look up. He,Ben, and Raffy are hanging over the side. "Is it espresso?" Anson… — 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
He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him.… — 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
But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone… — 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
I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life!… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?" Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close… — 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
Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry… — 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
