Quotes from Melina Marchetta

He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fucked way, is tuned in to mine. Get that through your thick skull. Would I like it any other way? Hell, yes, but I don't think that will be happening in my lifetime.

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

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

From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.

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

It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.

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

I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

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

These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking. Jonah Griggs takes my hand under the table and links my fingers with his and I know that I would sacrifice almost anything just to keep this state of mind, for the rest of the week at least.

Never ,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.

This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

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.

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance. Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

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.

What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.