Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 3

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

Simple dreams are the hardest to come true

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.

All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphatically. "That's the language I share with them.

You just have to belong. Long to be.

I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!

Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.

She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.

Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.

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.

I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone.

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.’ ‘Let me tell you something, Olivier,’ she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, ‘this is my real world.

Who do you hang out with?" Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid.

What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?

This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.

What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.

Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I need you to make things real. Walk inside me without silence, Kill the past and change the tense. Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring; Take me places that make more sense.

To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.