Quotes by Melina Marchetta

About Melina Marchetta:

Melina Marchetta is an Australian writer and teacher. Melina is best known as the author of novels, Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca and On the Jellicoe Road. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004. For Jellicoe Road she won the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognising the year's best book for young adults. Marchetta holds a name for being one of the more prominent Australian Authors of present time in Young-Adult Fiction.
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As he left Yata’s home that morning, he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams. For a moment he allowed himself to feel regret at the thought of never building a...

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We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and only then will we know true peace.

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She bewitches you," Trevanion said. "And she is yours for the taking. Any fool can see that. So take her and whatever needs to be out of your system." ... "Maybe you are right, Trevanion," he said, turning back to his father. "But it is her hope that...

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Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.” "Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

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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.

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Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

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Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.

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Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.

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One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

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But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

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When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord.

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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.

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People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else.

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How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

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For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their w...

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He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".

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Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you think were friends?" "Everything." I hear her yawn. "Being enemies with him is better." she tells me. There's a long pause and I t...

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City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

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Author Bio

  • NameMelina Marchetta
  • DescriptionAustralian teen writer
  • BornMarch 25, 1965
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksLooking For Alibrandi; Finnikin Of The Rock; On The Jellicoe Road