Top 300 Melina Marchetta Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Promise me you’ll never stop dreaming.”

— Melina Marchetta

2. “It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.”

— Melina Marchetta

3. “Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.”

— Melina Marchetta

4. “Hold my hand because I might disappear.”

— Melina Marchetta

5. “Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”

— Melina Marchetta

6. “You know what? You didn’t do anything wrong. I did. It’s this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I’m supposed to.”

— Melina Marchetta

7. “Because today, I think I’m leaning on the side of wonder.”

— Melina Marchetta

8. “Don’t believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.”

— Melina Marchetta

9. “Your problems are out there. But they’re small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.”

— Melina Marchetta

10. “Do something that scares you everyday.”

— Melina Marchetta

11. “Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.”

— Melina Marchetta

12. “If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.”

— Melina Marchetta

13. “My ideal community? Anywhere but here.”

— Melina Marchetta

14. “Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.”

— Melina Marchetta

15. “A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.”

— Melina Marchetta

16. “Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.”

— Melina Marchetta

17. “Why do I feel like something’s missing in my life without them and they don’t feel the same about me?”

— Melina Marchetta

18. “Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

— Melina Marchetta

19. “And we all end up where we started.”

— Melina Marchetta

20. “It’s my birthday today. I’m not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.”

— Melina Marchetta

21. “I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.”

— Melina Marchetta

22. “And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you’re watching someone die. But there’s a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.”

— Melina Marchetta

23. “I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.”

— Melina Marchetta

24. “And when you’d finished running you’d be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you’d have nobody to help you.”

— Melina Marchetta

25. “Just ask how I’m feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.”

— Melina Marchetta

26. “Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

28. “According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I’ll thank him for the advice.”

— Melina Marchetta

29. “I’m beginning to realize that things don’t turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don’t they can turn out just a little bit better.”

— Melina Marchetta

30. “He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, “What can you see from here?” “Nothing” I said, “Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect”.”

— Melina Marchetta

31. “When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don’t know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don’t know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.”

— Melina Marchetta

32. “You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it’s about time I saved myself.”

— Melina Marchetta

33. “It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.”

— Melina Marchetta

34. “I think we’re made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you’re left with less of yourself.”

— Melina Marchetta

35. “I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.”

— Melina Marchetta

36. “It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.”

— Melina Marchetta

37. “You chicks get hot and bothered about anything.”

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

39. “Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.”

— Melina Marchetta

40. “Because being so dependent on people scares me.”

— Melina Marchetta

41. “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?”

— Melina Marchetta

42. “You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.”

— Melina Marchetta

43. “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.”

— Melina Marchetta

44. “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.”

— Melina Marchetta

45. “From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.”

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

47. “Causing a riot is what I do best.”

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta

49. “It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Melina Marchetta