Quotes About Love
What is she like? Evanjalin of the Monts?' he asked. Finnikin thought for a moment. 'Strong. In here,' he said, thumping his chest twice. 'Humbling. Ruthless. Cunning. She can love people with a fierceness that I have not seen before.' He smiled when he realized he was talking too much. 'And she looks like a Mont woman, so of course she's very beautiful.
~ Melina Marchetta
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But it was Finnikin he tried not to look at, except her heard something come from him that sound like some wild animal and then Finnikin said her name and as long as Froi was alive he had never heard a word said with such pain and he knew he never would again.
~ Melina Marchetta
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She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.
~ Melina Marchetta
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No. We were jealous that Lirah had Gargarin. Cold, cold Lirah, who was bitter towards all men, loved my brother with all her heart. It made me hate her even more, because I knew this union was not one of the flesh. She hated the touch of men. He barely tolerated the touch of anyone. I couldn't bear the idea of him loving someone as much as he loved me." -Arjuro of Abroi
~ Melina Marchetta
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Best prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
~ Melina Marchetta
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And do you want to hear something that was breaking my heart, day after day? I forgot the faces of my granddaughters in all that hatred. Hatred smothers all beauty. Beloved Isaboe has little resemblance to her older sisters, but your Phaedra — she made me remember those precious, precious girls, and I wasn't angry anymore. I just missed them, and it's the beauty in here," she said, pointing to her chest, "that made me remember them. Her beauty.
~ Melina Marchetta
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I met you at the cornerstone on the highway to bedlam./Walked with you to the pinnacle, along that ledge to hell,/Traveled along the passageway of all things aching,/But would crawl with you if you wanted me to/On the steeple point to hope./So we can tip the stars and hold the moon,/Graze the sun, but make it soon.
~ Melina Marchetta
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I'm comparing you to . . . rugby and . . . my voice breaking . . . and everything I love but don't understand." "To the failures in your life." "No. I'm comparing you to all the things I love doing best and I just can't have when I want them.
~ Melina Marchetta
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If I asked you to stay, would you?" I ask later as we're standing by his car. "Maybe I would, but I don't think you'd ask me. But I swear to God that I'll be on the first plane back if you ever need saving from anything. . . ." I shake my head again. "You go and shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.
~ Melina Marchetta
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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
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and if I could bottle the look on his face, i'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Hold my hand,' she said, sobbing against him. "Hold my hand because I might disappear
~ Melina Marchetta
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Two best friends traveled from the Burdekin in North Queensland sometime in the 1960s and walked into the Union and fell in love with Grace. Tom finch was the smarter talker of the two and won first round, marrying her before his name came up in the lottery sending him to Vietnam on a tour of duty. He never returned. The heartbroken, patient one, Bill Mackee, grieved a best friend and married the love of his life, adopting the twins when they were four years old.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Did he say my name?" "Did he have to? When your name is written all over his heart?
~ Melina Marchetta
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I see the look on her face that says nothing can happen to her if she's holding on to her dad. It kills me to hate them so much for having that.
~ Melina Marchetta
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Froi thought for a moment. "I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt lying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her.
~ Melina Marchetta
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thirdly is how I feel about you, but more than anything how I feel about me because of you.
~ Melina Marchetta
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I had a life with people who I would die for! You've ruined everything. I despise you," he spat. "You're supposed to despise him," Arjuro muttered. "He's your father.
~ Melina Marchetta
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He kisses her and wants to beg her and the others to never give up on him. Ever. But he gets a feeling that he would be preaching to the converted
~ Melina Marchetta
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And I hate him and love him and curse him and feel sorry for him, all at the same time.
~ Melina Marchetta
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The silence accentuates the beauty of him. The beauty of this first boy of theirs.
~ Melina Marchetta
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They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his hand. "Buy yourself some chocolates, Tom." It's what she'd say to him as a kid with a twenty cent coin.
~ Melina Marchetta
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People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive.
~ Melina Marchetta
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