Melina Marchetta Quotes page 4

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

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

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

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.”

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.”

Source: Quintana of Charyn

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

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“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.”

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“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.”

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.”

Source: Quintana of Charyn

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

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“he begged. she demanded to know. A hand suddenly gripped his wrist.
He wondered if the hold came from the realms of the gods. But he didn't care. All he knew was what the Goddess was whispering to him”

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

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

Source: Quintana of Charyn

“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

“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.”

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“… 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

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from here. I had to sleep at the Santangelo penitentiary for pre-pubescent girls.”

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.”

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I've got you, Froi.""

""Finn?”

Source: Saving Francesca