Quotes About Relationships
People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive.
~ Melina Marchetta
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And at last Finnikin understood why he had felt so sorrowful and silent these last few days. He knew how to be Finnikin of the Rock to Evanjalin of the Monts. But he had no idea who to be to Queen Isaboe.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Thomas Mackee and Jimmy Hailler grasp each other's hands, one of those brothers-in-arms-we-fought-in-Nam-together grips, but outside this room I don't think they relate.
~ Melina Marchetta
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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
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Wives can replace their husbands, Georgie," her aunt once told her. "But sisters can't replace their brothers.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Kind of interested in you, " he laughs, as if he can't believe what he's hearing. "I'm kind of interested in calculus and ancient Roman warfare. You don't use words like kind of interested to describe how I feel about you.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Before I can finish, he turns away and sits down, his back to me, as if I was never there. I stare at the back of his head. There's something about it that makes me want to commit a violent act with a blunt instrument.
~ Melina Marchetta
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I don't believe you should be a virgin when you get married,' Sera said. 'You should experiment. Men do' 'Yes, but only if you're in love with them,' I said.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Why did I feel so grateful that people treated me well?
~ Melina Marchetta
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Words are intimacy she won't allow and he would not dare ask for.
~ Melina Marchetta
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And Bish thought it strange that seventeen-year-old girls who had sex with idiot boys could still cry like babies for their fathers.
~ Melina Marchetta
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If he can still piss her off, then it's a whole lot better than indifference.
~ Melina Marchetta
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But then I catch Grigg's eye and he looks at me in a way that tells me exactly what he's feeling and I love that look. Suddenly I want to yell out to everyone, "It's a game, these territory wars. They loved eachother.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Most of the nicer guys have girlfriends, and we know this because they make it clear the moment we're introduced, as if to say, "Don't think about it." Those particular guys have absolutely no idea what to do with girls who aren't girlfriends, so at the moment they're at a bit of a dead loss in the friendship department.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Before I knew what was happening he was pulled away from me and I wondered for a second where Anna had got such strength from. But it wasn't Anna who was bashing Greg Sim's face on the ground. It was Jacob Coote.
~ Melina Marchetta
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We'd go to bed furious with each other, and then she'd wake me in the middle of the night and come and lie on my bed and we'd talk for hours, about nothing and everything, and she'd let me touch the scars on her stomach—the scars from where they cut me out of her.
~ Melina Marchetta
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But it's the look in his eyes that I can't help responding to, and I think to myself, forget the girlfriend. Just go for it. And I want to. But his girlfriend is there, a smiler, not a grinner.
~ Melina Marchetta
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I think were made up of all these different pieces an every time someone goes your left with less of yourself.
~ Melina Marchetta
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I have an aunt and I have a Griggs and this is what it's like to have connections with people.
~ Melina Marchetta
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A lot of times you're around men who are so in love with their wives or partners that they don't have anything to offer any other woman in conversation. Especially single women. But Sam and Dom and Abe can be in love with you three and still make a girl feel as if she has some kind of sex appeal. That's nice.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Because who they were had always been determined by him
~ Melina Marchetta
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Please," he says after he's swallowed. "It's bad enough that the middle-aged are having sex, without thinking of my aunt doing it. And I don't know why someone just doesn't tell Sam to use a condom instead of impregnating the women of the inner-west." Georgie stares at him, stunned, and then she bursts out laughing. "Middle-aged? What a little dickhead," Lucia says.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Recuerdo amor. Es lo que tengo que seguir recordándome. Es gracioso cómo puedes olvidarlo todo, excepto el amor de las personas que te han querido. Tal vez por eso a los humanos nos cuesta tanto recuperarnos de las historias de amor. No es el dolor lo que tratan de superar, es el amor.
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