Melina Marchetta Quotes About Babies

Quotes about: Babies

• The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.

  Melina Marchetta

  Depression, Mother, Baby

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.75, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he asks quietly. He hears her breathing so close to his ear. 'Yes.' 'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.

  Melina Marchetta

  Baby, Stupid, Sleep

• Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who will listen. God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true. The first name shatters him. The second makes his head spin.

  Melina Marchetta

  Baby, Jesus, Names

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