Melina Marchetta Quotes
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Melina Marchetta Famous Quotes & Sayings
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How is it that she spoke to you of such things?" Quintana asked.
"Oh, you know. She opened her mouth and words came out.
"Oh, you know. She opened her mouth and words came out.
We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.
Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.
What do you want from me? he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
I wanted to say, 'Your face has been taken by another, so I've forgotten the malice in your eyes and the bitterness of your mouth.
When she's gone, Tom dares to look at Sam and then the ultrasound photo again. You've fathered the elephant man. Someone has to tell her.
The girls would always tell me not to take things personally, but I never believed there was any other way of taking it.
Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.
I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods.
Well then you'll never trust the opposite sex again.
Well then you'll never trust the opposite sex again.
Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.
Wives can replace their husbands, Georgie," her aunt once told her. "But sisters can't replace their brothers.
I've had it with this waiting business. I can cope with another woman, but I can't cope with being ignored when there's nothing in his way.
Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.
Can you not see [hope] burning in her eyes? Does it not make you want to look away when you have none to give in return?
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
He held her against him and for once he understood what she had felt every day that he had known her
You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.
Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?
I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless.
Like I used to be.
Like I used to be.
Because we don't live in a society anymore, Tom. We live in an economy. We're not citizens. We're customers.
I can hazard a guess, but I'll never know/ Why you put these walls up, I can't get through/It's as though you want to be lonely and blue.
Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her.
'Finke?'
'Yeah?'
'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build,
'Finke?'
'Yeah?'
'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build,
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.
Just 'Your mother.'" But it doesn't work if girls say it to each other," she continues. "You have to have a penis for it to affect you in such a way.
Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.
I'm going to paste it up on the wall so my dickhead uncle sees it the moment he walks in and stops going on about me losing it.
Her voice stopped him. I woke with your name on my lips every morning. Like a prayer of hope. For now, that's all I can offer.
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 crush on him.
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 just never had to practise it.
Go to hell," he said, but there was a desolate fear in his eyes and I couldn't look away.
"Been there. Trust me. It's so overrated.
"Been there. Trust me. It's so overrated.
Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?
You are strong and young, and you will find a way out of this darkness. But that path will belong to you. No one else.
Why do they always have to remember the pathetic stuff? Why can't they ever remember something positive being said about me?
What's the difference between a trip and a journey?"
"Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand.
"Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand.
I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.