520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

I love it when you’re demented like this.

The truth doesn’t set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn’t. He came back for her.

Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.

Woman, I’m trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?

Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he’d like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.

And when you’d finished running you’d be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you’d have nobody to help you.

And then he told me to close my eyes. And I think I’ve been frightened to do just that ever since.