Melina Marchetta - Life Quotes

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What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.

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

Melina Marchetta
My old school, St Stella's, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.

Melina Marchetta
I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.

Melina Marchetta
The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.

Melina Marchetta
If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I'd spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That's the difference between you and me, Tom. I'd go back to the moment it all fell apart and I'd start there.

Melina Marchetta
It's all a bit of a gamble, mate. That's all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don't take chances.

Melina Marchetta
They always prided themselves on looking youthful. Forty's the new thirty, they'd joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred.

Melina Marchetta
No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.

Melina Marchetta
I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

Melina Marchetta
You grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.

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No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

Melina Marchetta
Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I'm about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again.

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

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Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

Melina Marchetta
In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

Melina Marchetta
Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

Melina Marchetta