520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

You’re judging her by her literacy,’ Tara says. ‘You’re a literacist.

The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.

I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would never come to thephone. What part of that gives the impression that I didn’t care?~Jonah Griggs

I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. Trang you over and over again and you would never come to thephone. What part of that gives the impression that I didn’t care?~Jonah Griggs

Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth.

He just watched the way Finnikin’s hands rested on Evanjalin’s neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.

Simple dreams are the hardest to come true