Melina Marchetta quotes

If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it. (Melina Marchetta)
Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.
Melina Marchetta
If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?
Melina Marchetta
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.
Melina Marchetta
Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.
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
Do something that scares you everyday.
Melina Marchetta
People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.
Melina Marchetta
What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.
Melina Marchetta
Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
Melina Marchetta
Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows. (Melina Marchetta)
There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
Melina Marchetta
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
Melina Marchetta
It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
Melina Marchetta
Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.
Melina Marchetta
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. 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.
Melina Marchetta
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
Melina Marchetta
Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
Melina Marchetta
Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?
Melina Marchetta
Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.
Melina Marchetta
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? (Melina Marchetta)
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
Melina Marchetta
A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
Melina Marchetta
How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?
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Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.
Melina Marchetta