520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance. Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he’s only giving me seventy years.

Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that’s not my flesh and blood after all these years?

Some of us weren’t born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?” Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I’m not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It’s bad enough that I’m sharing chocolate brownies swith him. I shake my head. “Not today.

What kind of freak is this kid who’s giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better.

Well, I’m not sure what suspicious looks like. Sometimes when you come down the mountain and stand behind those trees, you look suspicious.

What are you so sad about? We’re going to know him for the rest of our lives.