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“This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence.
That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her.
Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified
and vulnerable.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words.

"That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“She misses him more now than when he was away”

Melina Marchetta

Source: The Piper's Son

“Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better”

Melina Marchetta

Source: The Piper's Son

“If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on.

I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That 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

“If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot."
"Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“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

“Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being trusted.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Quintana of Charyn