520 Quotes by Melina Marchetta

You don’t die. You just... get really angry and then after you’re angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.

She thinks she knows who I am because she thinks who I am is who she tells me I am.

My father believed in signs,’ she says. ‘Not that they change events or predict what’s going to happen. It’s more about what we do when we come across one.

The worst thing about the slivers of light is that you get to catch people’s expressions for only a split second; then they disappear again, and in between you are forced to think about what it is that could make a person look so devastated.

Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage are in his soul. Just in case.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you’re watching someone die.

I don’t get chosen for things unless there is a motive. – Ben.

And if the gods were to give me a choice between living a better life, having not met them, or a wretched life with the slightest chance of crossing their path, then I’d pick the wretched life over and over again.

He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn’t like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn’t needed, but common sense was.