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Quotes About Acceptance

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.
~ Melina Marchetta
You just have to belong. Long to be.
~ Melina Marchetta
So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?
~ Melina Marchetta
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.
~ Melina Marchetta
Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.
~ Melina Marchetta
So I ring Justine Kalinsky and I say, "It's Francesca Spinelli," and she says, "Francesca, you've got to stop using last names. How are you doing?" and I say "I feel like shit", and I don't know how it happens, but by eight o'clock that night I'm lying next to her on the couch with Siobhan and Tara and we're eating junk food and watching a Keanu movie. And I want to stay on that couch for the rest of my life.
~ Melina Marchetta
I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.
~ Melina Marchetta
In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.
~ Melina Marchetta
Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you." And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.
~ Melina Marchetta
Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like what I see. Someone who actually fails. Someone who has absolutely no self-control. Someone who says real dickhead things like 'this is complicated.' I like that part of me, you know. I like the fact that I know I can't control you or how I feel about you and that doesn't freak me out.
~ Melina Marchetta
But what if I don't?" she argued. "I don't know him. How can I love one that I don't know? I'm frightened to see him. I've never seen a little creature. How will I know he's not all wrong?" "And if he is all wrong, what will you do?" Froi had asked. She thought for a moment. "I'll hold him tight and tell him that we'll be wrong for this world together.
~ Melina Marchetta
I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in. "He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.
~ Melina Marchetta
You're good enough, Jacob.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Guilt is a burden, so forgive yourself for the mistakes.
~ Melina Marchetta
We stay like that for a while. No one tries to analyze it or offer solutions. No one interrupts. Sometimes, momentarily, I'm embarrassed by the whole disclosure, but I realize that I trust these people and I don't know how or when that happened.
~ Melina Marchetta
Froi noticed that she said "carrying mine," not "carrying you." Lirah and Gargarin still had not acknowledged him as theirs, and he realized that he wanted more from them than they were willing to give. But they seemed broken people who were not good with words, so he kept his silence.
~ Melina Marchetta
My friends always told me they wanted to rescue me from Siobhan, and I relished being saved because it meant that people stopped tapping me on the shoulder to point out what I was doing wrong.
~ Melina Marchetta
Sluts and losers are tolerable to my friends. But a person with a social conscience is from Pluto.
~ Melina Marchetta
Get over it, I want to tell myself. He's just a gawky guy with a cowlick, not some stud.
~ Melina Marchetta
Death is death and loss is loss.
~ Melina Marchetta
It's kind of like a grief, and it's not a puzzle that you're supposed to work out on your own
~ Melina Marchetta
I feel tears well in my eyes and I can't even stop them from happening. I can't stop anything from happening in my life.
~ Melina Marchetta
Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would reword Mr. Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, "I've been an inexplicable fool," for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal: "A thousand times yes.
~ Melina Marchetta