Melina Marchetta cytaty

strona 7

“It's not that I like you least […] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.”

“A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.”

“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.”

“I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.”

“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.”

“One day" came.
Because finally I understood.”

“I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.”

“he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.”

“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.”

“… 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.”

“When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please?”

“Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I've got you, Froi.""

""Finn?”