520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one’s worth came from others.

It’s like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

I look around for the counter that sells my scent, but I’m so petrified that if I spray it in the air, nothing will come out. And then Mia’s scent seems to fade away and everything else fades away with it and I know that all I have to do to recapture it is press the spray button again.

The girls would always tell me not to take things personally, but I never believed there was any other way of taking it.

She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I’d probably be a better person.

No. We were jealous that Lirah had Gargarin. Cold, cold Lirah, who was bitter towards all men, loved my brother with all her heart. It made me hate her even more, because I knew this union was not one of the flesh. She hated the touch of men. He barely tolerated the touch of anyone. I couldn’t bear the idea of him loving someone as much as he loved me.” -Arjuro of Abroi.

I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.

She pointed above the little king’s crib where a cutout piece of parchment hung from the ceiling. Froi’s eyes followed her finger across the ceiling to the wall, where the light from the moon made a shape of a rabbit.