520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

Sometimes Webb believed that he would never experience a better feeling than when he was looking at her, would never see anything or anybody bursting with more life and spirit. Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage area in his soul. Just in case.

I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It’s a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

I get all the criticism about religion, you know, Mr. Ortley. But the thing is, you can’t take it away from people and not leave something else of substance. That’s what your generation will be remembered for. Taking so much away and replacing it with so little of worth.

Don’t let me outlive this woman. Don’t let me exist one moment without her.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. “Okay, would you like pizza?” “I don’t think you deserve my company but I feel sorry for you so I’ll say yes.” “God help me,” he said, half under his breath.

They either don’t get it or don’t want to. Maybe I’m just not selling it well.

It’ll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.

That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

And slowly the mornings begin to change. Nothing too friendly or exciting, but by the time I get to school, the sick feeling that I wake up with every morning disappears. Not for long, but enough to get me through the day.