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“I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself… I'll run to be emancipated.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“I love it when you're demented like this.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers.
Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“He came third in the state for woodwork,”
Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: The Piper's Son

“They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke.
Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: The Piper's Son

“Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Saving Francesca

“you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance. It robbed Phaedra of her breath.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (…) What you can't understand, you destroy.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?
I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.'

'The mule and I have an agreement.'

'The mule and you have similar traits.”

Melina Marchetta

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock