Melina Marchetta
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.Collection: Love
I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.Collection: Medicine
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.Collection: Father
Even five minutes of your time can make someone's day.Collection: Minutes
The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.Collection: Depression
When one is silent, those around speak even more.Collection: Speak
Do something that scares you everyday.Collection: Everyday
Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.Collection: Memories
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and let it take me. But I know sooner or later I will have to get out, that I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes - the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.Collection: Eye
Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.Collection: Doors
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.Collection: Memories
I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.Collection: Love
She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.Collection: Pregnancy
See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.Collection: Together
Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.Collection: Feelings
What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.Collection: Mean
A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.Collection: Thinking
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.Collection: Fragments
I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.Collection: Thinking
I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.Collection: Italian
What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.Collection: Journey
I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.Collection: Running
Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.Collection: Believe
Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?Collection: Grieving
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.Collection: Flying
But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.Collection: Daughter
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.Collection: Grief
I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in. "He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.Collection: Kissing
In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.Collection: Vices
She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.Collection: School
She misses him more now than when he was awayCollection: Missing
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 GriggsCollection: Father
She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’ She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. ‘This is not our time.’ ‘But that will never mean I love you less,’ he said.Collection: Regret
I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Father
I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.Collection: Party
I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look at my beautiful girl.Collection: Beautiful
Simple dreams are the hardest to come trueCollection: Dream
There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Dream
Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?" Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I'm not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It's bad enough that I'm sharing chocolate brownies swith him. I shake my head. "Not today.Collection: Mean
Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?' 'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.Collection: Said
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.Collection: Falling In Love
Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?Collection: Missing
We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women.Collection: Kissing
He just watched the way Finnikin’s hands rested on Evanjalin’s neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.Collection: Kissing
What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now?" he asks, digging his hands into the pockets of his khaki pants, grinning right back at me. "I think it would cause a riot." "Well, you know me," he says, lowering his head towards me. "Causing a riot is what I do best." Santangelo approaches before Griggs gets any closer and pulls him away. "Are you guys insane?" he says, irritated. "It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians," I say, throwing his own words back at him.Collection: Thinking
Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.Collection: People
It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi takes off his shirt while he's playing the saxophone. Whoever's not chatting up a Cadet or a girl from Darling House or playing chess with the guys is watching the band. I turn into a groupie.Collection: Girl
You can't go around feeling too much.Collection: Feelings