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Melina Marchetta is an Australian writer and teacher. Marchetta is best known as the author of novels, Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca and On the Jellicoe Road. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004. For Jellicoe Road she won the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognising the year's best book for young adults. Marchetta holds a name for being one of the more prominent Australian Authors of present time in Young-Adult Fiction.

✵ 25. March 1965  •  Other names מלינה מארג'יטה

Works

On the Jellicoe Road
On the Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta
Finnikin of the Rock
Finnikin of the Rock
Melina Marchetta
Looking for Alibrandi
Looking for Alibrandi
Melina Marchetta
On the Jellicoe Road
On the Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta
Finnikin of the Rock
Finnikin of the Rock
Melina Marchetta
Looking for Alibrandi
Looking for Alibrandi
Melina Marchetta
Melina Marchetta: 204 quotes3 likes

Famous Melina Marchetta Quotes

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

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there.

"It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch."

I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“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 book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Melina Marchetta Quotes about thinking

“Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around. If something happens to him, I have to know that I won't fall apart…”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return… because I think I'll need you to do that.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: The Piper's Son

“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.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“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.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta Quotes about love

“It's not that I like you least […] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“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.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“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

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“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.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“We don't even love each other.
I do a bit, you know.
You do what a bit?
You know. Like you… whatever… love you a bit.
I think I kind of love you too.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta: Trending quotes

“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.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Jellicoe Road

Melina Marchetta Quotes

“Hold my hand because I might disappear.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that count?”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

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

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

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

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: The Piper's Son

“Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.”
"Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: The Piper's Son

“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 book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Do something that scares you everyday.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

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

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“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 book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.

'The first one. I really resent being called the second.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“Maybe memories should be left the way they are.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

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

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.

But no one does.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: The Piper's Son

“What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.
"Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through."

That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“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.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“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

Source: Saving Francesca

“It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“When one is silent, those around speak even more.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.'
And she wept to hear his words.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Quintana of Charyn

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

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

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

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: The Piper's Son

“You just have to belong. Long to be.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god, but because I've never really heard what a sex god sounds like, I can't verify that.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“When I grow up, I'm going to be my mother.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“She asked me what type of contraceptive I use.
Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“Because people with that much spirit frighten the hell out of me. They make me want to be a better person when I know it's not possible.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

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