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“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