520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

Because we don’t live in a society anymore, Tom. We live in an economy. We’re not citizens. We’re customers.

To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

I love this school. I love how uncomplicated it is and the fact that we come from almost two hundred suburbs, so we have to work hard at finding something to hold us together.

Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.

It’s not that I miss my mother. It’s just that I miss the idea of what one would be.

And I hate him and love him and curse him and feel sorry for him, all at the same time.

Maybe she’d always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

Land?? Froi whispered. ‘You’re giving them land? I’m not worth the valley.’ ‘You’re worth a kingdom,’ Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.