520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it’s likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.

The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, “We’re pregnant.” I want to go around the neighborhood saying, “We’re depressed.” If my mum can’t get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it’s eating us alive.

And at last Finnikin understood why he had felt so sorrowful and silent these last few days. He knew how to be Finnikin of the Rock to Evanjalin of the Monts. But he had no idea who to be to Queen Isaboe.

I wasn’t there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass”, he says. “I was there to throw myself in front of it.

Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

Everything is evil that humans can’t control or conquer.