Melina Marchetta: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“Do something that scares you everyday.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

But no one does.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”