Melina Marchetta: Trending quotes

“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.”

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.”

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“I stand up and walk towards her because my days of waiting for more are over. 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.”

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“I have one brother and I live with four hundred guys. Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across.”

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“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.”

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood.”

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.”

Source: Saving Francesca

“When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.”

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.”

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“You know something, Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming.”

Source: The Piper's Son

“I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.”

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“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.”

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“One day" came.
Because finally I understood.”

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.”

Source: Looking for 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.”

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail.
These two are my junk mail.”

“… what was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us," Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her and there's a lot of beaming happening.”

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please?”

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“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.”

Source: Froi of the Exiles