520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

At times it’s like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.

Just having my own time-out; a bit of self-pity here, a bit of self-loathing there.

You’re a bully and I know you don’t care, but I just thought you should know that I think you’re scum. He’s probably some miserable kid with his own demons and he doesn’t need yours.

My friends always told me they wanted to rescue me from Siobhan, and I relished being saved because it meant that people stopped tapping me on the shoulder to point out what I was doing wrong.

I remember love. It’s what I have to keep on reminding myself. It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you.

When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don’t know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don’t know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.

Beatriss looked away, fighting tears. She gripped their hands. “I’m forgetting what the truth is, friends,” she said. “We were here, Lady Beatriss. We saw it all, so when you forget what the truth is, you come to us and we’ll remind you.

Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.

Because 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.