Quotes from Melina Marchetta

They travel in packs and trust each other with all their hearts. It doesn't mean they have the capacity to love more than us, but they do know how to trust. It's because of their queen and her father before her and his father before him. The trust of a people comes from the goodness of their leaders.

Josie, life is not a romance novel. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

Little people irritate me. I felt like this monstrous giant alongside them.

When one is silent, those around speak even more

One day Tate was there, a ghost of Tate

all he needed to act. One man down. Then two. The daggers silent

A dead look in her eye, a thin grimace to her lips, a sick pallor to her skin that spoke of despair

But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.

But no one came back

But I want to give in to it sometimes

That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can never go back to because I know they will slow me down for the rest lf my life if I let myself remember them for one moment

The grief hits her hard one day. The way it can't be controlled. The way that yesterday can be good and so can the day before, and so can the week and fortnight before that, but then today comes and she's back to zero.

I wanted to say, 'Your face has been taken by another, so I've forgotten the malice in your eyes and the bitterness of your mouth.

Guys don't like chicks who are down all the time.

The same way most people get away with the wrong thing," she said. "Wealth. . .

We'll kill each other, Priestling." "I'll win most arguments, but you'll get used to it.

It will make her stronger." "She was strong enough!

I'm a waste of space.

You are strong and young, and you will find a way out of this darkness. But that path will belong to you. No one else.

I remember on the day I was separated from Froi outside the Paladazzo, I learned that I could be loved. That was his greatest gift to me. From you, I learned that I could love my people. Don't ever underestimate the power of that.

Why do they always have to remember the pathetic stuff? Why can't they ever remember something positive being said about me?

Sentimental, Arjuro? You of all people." "Me of all people can be as sentimental as he pleases.

My heart's already sunk before I can save it.

As Finnikin approached the queen's tent, he saw Aldron standing guard. "I need to see her," he said coldly. "You're not on my list of people who are allowed in," Aldron said. "Then may I ask where this list is?" Aldron tapped his head. "It's up here." "It's good to know that something is.