Quotes from Melina Marchetta

sabe qué le digo? Que ahora mismo ya tengo bastante superadas las pequeñas decepciones de la vida.

Dispersarnos?- dijo Tate-. ¿Por qué? Quedémonos aquí, ¿por qué ir a cualquier otro sitio?. - Porque no sabremos nunca lo fantástico que es este lugar hasta que nos marchemos - dijo Narnie.

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

Having boys around camp is hard. You have to be on the alert. Boys, for example, like exposing themselves. They walk back from the shower blocks with their towels around them, and the next minute either someone flashes at you, or one of his friends grabs his towel off him and makes a run for it. I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.

la gente con tanta personalidad me asusta terriblemente. Hacen que quiera ser mejor persona, sabiendo que no me es posible.

It starts off ridiculous and goes downhill from there as we each take a turn. We dance in a way that's only possible when there are no boys around. The rule is not to take yourself seriously, but whoever gets a solo has to keep as straight a face as possible and go for it.

Tom made her watch all three movies one afternoon," Justine says. "I wonder if Tara's ever forgiven you." The phone beeps again and she reads, "I want those ten hours of my life back.

playing the same music on one of those Discmans

Si cierras los ojos consigues controlar tu propia oscuridad.

Some people clean the fridge to avoid studying. I go to Brisbane.

playing the same music on one of those Discmans for tapes from the eighties

He's Post-it-noted the window," Tom says, peering to see what it reads. "It says 'Call me' and his mobile number. I might just do that," he muses. "He's kind of cute.

Me levanto y ando hacia ella, porque mis tiempos de esperar más han terminado.Si quiero más, tengo que ir a buscarlo, exigirlo, abrazarlo con todas mis fuerzas y tratarlo de la mejor manera de la que soy capaz.

Se inclina y me besa, y yo me aferro a su camiseta, deseando saborear cada momento.

and I cried because I was loved by two of the strongest women I would ever meet in my lifetime.

Y la vida sigue, lo cual parece una extraña crueldad cuando estás viendo morir a alguien. Pero hay una alegría y una abundancia de todo, como de información y risas y tiempo veraniego y tantas historias contadas.

Fantastic. My little brother's ambition is to be a stick-in-the-mud moron with no personality.

I find I can't really describe what Mia has. People want symptoms. They want physical evidence. This thing my mum has is like the X-Files. It can't be explained to the non-believers.

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.

I can't believe I said it out loud. 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. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.

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.