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Quotes About Introspection

I ignore Jaco Coote when I see him. I'm not sure why. It's not as if I dislike him or anything. I think I ignore him because if I look at him I might find that he's looking at me, and I'm not sure where that would lead us.
~ Melina Marchetta
thirdly is how I feel about you, but more than anything how I feel about me because of you.
~ Melina Marchetta
I was wrong, I thought to myself. I honestly believed it. Not because Sister Louise told me or because she made me believe I was. I knew deep down that I was wrong and I think that my emancipation began at that moment.
~ 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
When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord.
~ Melina Marchetta
I want to cry because my mind is working too much
~ Melina Marchetta
The silence accentuates the beauty of him. The beauty of this first boy of theirs.
~ Melina Marchetta
I wonder if he sees the blood of someone who cut themselves while carving out their soul. Or if he's imagining what he'd write if he had a knife in his hand
~ Melina Marchetta
And in that dark silence where it seems that everyone is someplace but me, it all comes back.
~ Melina Marchetta
The girls would always tell me not to take things personally, but I never believed there was any other way of taking it.
~ Melina Marchetta
In his time since Sarnak, Froi had come to learn as much about the power of silence as the power of words.
~ Melina Marchetta
can you see what I see? No I don't think you can I can see images of nothing and I attempt to make that nothingness into something As hard as I try there is still nothing and that nothing is meaningless I am somewhere else now, outside I am surrounded by people and the blueness of the sky but still nothing has changed Everything remains the same I am still alone
~ Melina Marchetta
I can hazard a guess, but I'll never know/ Why you put these walls up, I can't get through/It's as though you want to be lonely and blue.
~ Melina Marchetta
I'm frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing's there.
~ Melina Marchetta
Do you think you love him?" Phaedra had once asked. "I don't know really what that is," Quintana had responded in her cold, practical way. Yes, you do, my queen, Phaedra wanted to say now. Quintana's love was unabashed. Wondrous. The type of love that lit a strange, strange face and turned it into a beacon.
~ Melina Marchetta
If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.
~ Melina Marchetta
Ha perfeccionado el arte de mirar directamente a las personas mientras evita mirarlas a los ojos.
~ Melina Marchetta
My life isn't as bad as I make out and sometimes I think it's all in my head, but I can't help it.
~ Melina Marchetta
Little people irritate me. I felt like this monstrous giant alongside them.
~ Melina Marchetta
When one is silent, those around speak even more
~ Melina Marchetta
All they needed to do was look up close at what it was they were afraid of and they'd probably realise that it wasn't so frightening after all.
~ Melina Marchetta
Si cierras los ojos consigues controlar tu propia oscuridad.
~ Melina Marchetta
I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.
~ Melina Marchetta
line deepening her already
~ Unknown