520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

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

The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There’s nothing mysterious about his ways. They’re premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.

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 in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.

It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.

I watch her walk up the road, and then she disappears and my anxiety returns, just for a split second. And somehow I find myself running, and by the time I catch up to her, the bus has pulled up.“Justine?”She looks at me, surprised, as the bus doors open.I’m trying to catch my breath because I don’t have much time.“You’re my rock.”The bus driver is telling her to get on the bus, but she’s just standing there, an I-think-I’m-going-to-cry look on her face. But I grin at her and she grins back.

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

The gods whispered to you once, Finnikin. And you listened. But they are proud and refuse to speak to those who do not believe that there is something out there mightier than the minds and intellect of mortals.