Melina Marchetta Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Two, Breezy

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.1, Harper Collins

• About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.

  Melina Marchetta

  Memories, Lying, Father

• My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Ocean, Journey

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.1, Harper Collins

• Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Father, Boys

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the boundaries." "We've seen you in your jocks," she reminds him. "Taylor and Griggs have pashed. You've broken into your father's police station for us. Don't you think the war has lost a bit of its tension?

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, War, Thinking

• This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Years, Age

• I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Giving, Trying

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

• It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

  Melina Marchetta

  Daughter, Father, Thinking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.66, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• You're the father of the person who is my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Persons

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.65, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• But it was definitely a car trailing me and quickly I prepared myself for a great dash. I began quickening my step and when it stopped alongside me I could stand it no longer. "My father's a cop and he'll kill you," I screeched without looking. "No, he's a barrister," I heard Michael Andretti say in a calm voice, "and he'll kill you if you don't get into this car.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Voice, Car

• Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.

  Melina Marchetta

  Letting Go, Father, Son

• His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Half, Towns

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