Top 300 Melina Marchetta Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “And there it was. That slight lisp. That awful accent. That funny face that made him ache. Charlie wasn’t just a cheat. He was a liar as well. Because Violette Zidane wasn’t just the girl he was shagging, like he told the cop. She sort of owned his heart a little. Kind of a lot.”

— Melina Marchetta

302. “Everyone agreed that Lucian would ruin this.”

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303. “I so don’t want to be attracted to him, and the fact that I am surprises me. Sometimes when I get home, I convince myself that I’m just romanticizing anyone who’s actually spoken to me, but then I see him the next day and my heart starts beating fast and I can’t really kid myself.”

— Melina Marchetta

304. “The gods whispered to you once, Finnikin. And you listened. But they are proud and refuse to speak to those who do not believe that there is something out there mightier than the minds and intellect of mortals.”

— Melina Marchetta

305. “Froi noticed that she said “carrying mine,” not “carrying you.” Lirah and Gargarin still had not acknowledged him as theirs, and he realized that he wanted more from them than they were willing to give. But they seemed broken people who were not good with words, so he kept his silence.”

— Melina Marchetta

306. “Quintana of Charyn’s body was a map of hatred.”

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307. “Her voice echoed and its volume took him by surprise. He walked to the rock’s edge, wanting to listen to it until the last echo disappeared, wanting to capture it in his hands.”

— Melina Marchetta

308. “You can’t go around feeling too much.”

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309. “Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them in the face with it until it could be avoided no longer.”

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310. “Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I’m crying because it hurts and he’s telling me he’s sorry over and over again, and I figure somewhere down the track we’ll work out the right way of doing this but I don’t want to let go, because tonight I’m not looking for anything more than being a part of him. Because being a part of him isn’t just anything. It’s kind of everything.”

— Melina Marchetta

311. “He wanted her to acknowledge that it was she who had bed him the night they gave themselves to each other. That his broken spirit and hers had created rather than destroyed something for the first time in their wretched lives.”

— Melina Marchetta

312. “You’re good enough, Jacob.”

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313. “I trace his face with my fingers, ‘Let me see. A guy tells me that he would have thrown himself in front of a train if it wasn’t for me and then drives seven hours straight, without whingeing once, on a wild-goose chase in search of my mother with absolutely no clue where to start. He is, in all probability, going to get court-martialled because of me, has put up with my moodiness all day long, and knows exactly what to order me for breakfast. It doesn’t get any more romantic than that, Jonah.”

— Melina Marchetta

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

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315. “But in ten years, no one had ever asked what he was thinking. And he knew that the novice Evanjalin was asking for more than just his thoughts. She wanted the part of him he fought to keep hidden. The part that held his foolish hopes and aching memories.”

— Melina Marchetta

316. “Why did I feel so grateful that people treated me well?”

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317. “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.”

— Melina Marchetta

318. “In a kinder world,” he whispered, “one I promise you I’ve seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.”

— Melina Marchetta

319. “If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.”

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320. “It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It’s what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.”

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321. “He has a strange face. It’s all sharpness and angles and incredibly fair skin. But then he’s got this thatch of black hair that’s such a contrast. It’s like two cultures had a massive fight over his face and neither won.”

— Melina Marchetta

322. “You can’t hate what you’re part of. What you are. I resent it most of the time, curse it always, but it’ll be part of me till the day I die.”

— Melina Marchetta

323. “I feel tears well in my eyes and I can’t even stop them from happening. I can’t stop anything from happening in my life.”

— Melina Marchetta

324. “A different Australia emerged in the 1950s. A multicultural one, and 30 years on we’re still trying to fit in as ethnics and we’re still trying to fit the ethnics in as Australians.”

— Melina Marchetta

325. “In an instant he forgot Joe’s poem about Japan except the part about ‘you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,’ and a new sound entered his life, like when he was a kid and he first heard the sound of horses clip-clopping and he asked his mother in wonder, “What’s that sound, because I’ve never heard it before?”

— Melina Marchetta

326. “I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven’t. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don’t want to leave it, others because the world around them won’t let them in.”

— Melina Marchetta

327. “If the munchkin, whose face I used to wash, tries to explain to us what a sixty-niner is, I’m going to report myself to child protection.”

— Melina Marchetta

328. “A tradition that we’ll never let go. A tradition that I probably will never let go of either, simply because like religion, culture is nailed into you so deep you can’t escape it. No matter how far you run.”

— Melina Marchetta

329. “Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.”

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330. “You’re judging her by her literacy,’ Tara says. ‘You’re a literacist.”

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331. “I’m just sick of all the misery, my absolute lack of control over everything.”

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332. “And he knew that, but all his life he’d been treated like crap to the point that he believed he was crap. He’d never done anything good and nobody had ever said anything positive about him.”

— Melina Marchetta

333. “Mia’s mother, Nonna Celia, is to blame for that, because she’s a prophet of doom. Every time I’d ask her if we could go someplace the next day or next week, her reply would be, “We might not live that long.” If I’d say, “See you tomorrow,” her answer would be, “If that’s what God wants.” Leaving so much to fate has kept me an insomniac for most of my life...”

— Melina Marchetta

334. “And tonight I’ll be with friends and family, which is what life is all about.”

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335. “I’m frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing’s there.”

— Melina Marchetta