Melina Marchetta Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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

  Song, Lakes, Years

• Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.

  Melina Marchetta

  Song, Kings, Queens

• Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  Song, Heart, Comforting

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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