Melina Marchetta citations

“This is war," he say quietly.
"Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.”

“Left alone with the dial tone… excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?”

“It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.”

“If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more.”

“What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.”

“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes… and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.”

“Hold my hand because I might disappear.”

“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”

“Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

“When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.”

“Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.”

“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that count?”

“Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”

“From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.”

“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.”

“A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.”

“How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?”

“Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.”

“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.”

“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.”