Years Quotes by 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

Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and…

— 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

Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle…

— Melina Marchetta

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can…

— 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

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

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a…

— Melina Marchetta

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had…

— Melina Marchetta

My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but…

— Melina Marchetta

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told…

— Melina Marchetta

And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I…

— 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

The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is…

— 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

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

“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

When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and…

— Melina Marchetta