Famous Melina Marchetta Quotes

  • Because today, I think I’m leaning on the side of wonder. – Melina Marchetta

    Because today, I think I’m leaning on the side of wonder.– Melina Marchetta

  • If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one’s worth came from others. – Melina Marchetta

    If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one’s worth came from others.– Melina Marchetta

  • I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I’d have lain down and died waiting. – Melina Marchetta

    I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I’d have lain down and died waiting.– Melina Marchetta

  • But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before. – Melina Marchetta

    But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.– Melina Marchetta

  • I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring. – Melina Marchetta

    I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.– Melina Marchetta

  • I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.– Melina Marchetta

  • I hope you’re not smoking in front of her,’ Lucia says to him.’Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,’ he says, irritated. – Melina Marchetta

    I hope you’re not smoking in front of her,’ Lucia says to him.’Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,’ he says, irritated.– Melina Marchetta

  • If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she’d never ever be able to operate like a normal person again. – Melina Marchetta

    If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she’d never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.– Melina Marchetta

  • And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them. – Melina Marchetta

    And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.– Melina Marchetta

  • If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. – Melina Marchetta

    If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.– Melina Marchetta