Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 5

Quotes about:

• I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. "Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?" "Not just 'some guy'." I tell him. "The guy.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Guy, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• When I grow, I'm going to be my mother.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Grows

  4 Copy quote

• You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Foundation, Shakes

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.193, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  44 Copy quote

• Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.

  Melina Marchetta

  Lazy, Comfort, Overrated

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  School, Trying, Stories

  4 Copy quote

• Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

• We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy. "And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming," my dad says. Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them. "Lamb roast. Am I invited?

  Melina Marchetta

  Dad, Thinking, Shopping

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.123, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

• People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

  Melina Marchetta

  People, Personality, Suffering

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

• Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

  Melina Marchetta

  Kind, Jellicoe Road

  13 Copy quote

• How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

  Melina Marchetta

  Faces, Forget, Moments

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Letting Go, Kissing, Hands

  14 Copy quote

• You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hurt, Laughing, One Day

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

• Guess what?' Fitz said. 'I don't know,' Jude said. 'What? Narnie smiled?' He glanced at her for the first time. 'When you guys see a Narnie smile, it's like a revalation,' Webb said, gathering her towards him. Jude stopped in front of her and, with both hands cupping her face, tried to make a smile. Narnie flinched. 'Leave her alone,' Tate said. 'I need a revelation,' Jude said. 'And you're the only one that can give me one, Narns.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hands, Giving, Guy

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes Webb believed that he would never experience a better feeling than when he was looking at her, would never see anything or anybody bursting with more life and spirit. Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage area in his soul. Just in case.

  Melina Marchetta

  Soul, Feelings, Spirit

  4 Copy quote

• It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Senior, Sports

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

• He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  Laughing, Satisfaction, Mines

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.69, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  7 Copy quote

• Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Home, Differences

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Summer, Laughter, Weather

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Needs, Demand, Want

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Brother, Years, Alive

  14 Copy quote

• Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

  Melina Marchetta

  Powerful, Arrows, Knowing

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  85 Copy quote

• Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

  Melina Marchetta

  Grieving, Persons

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.44, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

• Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.

  Melina Marchetta

  Covered Up, Secret, Made

  5 Copy quote

Page 5 of 14

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin