See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand. Melina Marchetta More Quotes by Melina Marchetta More Quotes From 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 forget-everythingpainlove My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. Melina Marchetta breezytwofather The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive. Melina Marchetta motherdepressionbaby When one is silent, those around speak even more. Melina Marchetta silentspeak I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away. Melina Marchetta supperhomehair 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 queenskingsdream She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’ She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. ‘This is not our time.’ ‘But that will never mean I love you less,’ he said. Melina Marchetta regretlove-youfall And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it. Melina Marchetta hatefeelingsway I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction. Melina Marchetta ranone-dayrunning Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people. Melina Marchetta dangerouspeople We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women. Melina Marchetta kissingbedmen See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away. Melina Marchetta forcetogetherfeels Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?' 'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said. Melina Marchetta know-howknowssaid He just watched the way Finnikin’s hands rested on Evanjalin’s neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself. Melina Marchetta thumbskissinghands In the end, the sum of my vices is all me. Melina Marchetta vicesends I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look at my beautiful girl. Melina Marchetta girlbeautifulhands You can't go around feeling too much. Melina Marchetta too-muchfeelings Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive. Melina Marchetta falling-in-lovebookpeople Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself. Melina Marchetta know-howstrongknows There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few. Melina Marchetta useworldneeds
