520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

And when I finish speaking, I kiss her cheek and I take away the tray. And it’s empty. That’s how we begin.

“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

What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?"Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me.""Same," Raffy says.I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking.

Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across.

And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you that day and you looked at peace with yourself and it made me reconsider everything I had planned to do. Because I thought to myself, you can't do this to her, not after the Hermit thing.""Do what to me? I don't think leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs," I lie."You being on that platform changed mine.

The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered and he looks a bit crestfallen when I say no."It's because they don't have coverage out here," Griggs tells him."No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

[Jonah Griggs] is similar to a hawke and a wolf and Will Trombal – he mates for life.

They all turned to Lirah, waiting.“We’ll kill each other, Priestling,” she said softly, but her eyes were bright.“I’ll win most arguments, but you’ll get used to it,” he said.She came to him and pressed a kiss to his cheek. “Thank you.” She kissed De Lancey as well. “And thank you.”Gargarin took her hand. “And what about mine?” he asked. “I’m the brilliant architect.