Quotes from Melina Marchetta

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.

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

It's all a bit of a gamble, mate. That's all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don't take chances.

You're the father of the person who is my life.

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.

I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.

I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.

What's the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand.

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.

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.

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

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone.

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.

Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name.

See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.

Love's easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.

I love it when you're demented like this.

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

And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.

I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless. Like I used to be.

I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.