It was strange to have his parents needing something from him. Something this big. In the past, they needed silence from him if he was making a racket. They needed him to apply himself. “I need you to be sensible, Tom.” But not this need. Not the need to make everything right.

— Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta Quotes

I remember love. It’s what I have to keep on reminding myself. It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you.

— Melina Marchetta

The gods whispered to you once, Finnikin. And you listened. But they are proud and refuse to speak to those who do not believe that there is something out there mightier than the minds and intellect of mortals.

— Melina Marchetta

Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one’s hand. But not every man knows how to lead.

— Melina Marchetta

Mia’s mother, Nonna Celia, is to blame for that, because she’s a prophet of doom. Every time I’d ask her if we could go someplace the next day or next week, her reply would be, “We might not live that long.” If I’d say, “See you tomorrow,” her answer would be, “If that’s what God wants.” Leaving so much to fate has kept me an insomniac for most of my life...

— Melina Marchetta

And tonight I’ll be with friends and family, which is what life is all about.

— Melina Marchetta

You’re judging her by her literacy,’ Tara says. ‘You’re a literacist.

— Melina Marchetta

A tradition that we’ll never let go. A tradition that I probably will never let go of either, simply because like religion, culture is nailed into you so deep you can’t escape it. No matter how far you run.

— Melina Marchetta

I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven’t. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don’t want to leave it, others because the world around them won’t let them in.

— Melina Marchetta

I get all the criticism about religion, you know, Mr. Ortley. But the thing is, you can’t take it away from people and not leave something else of substance. That’s what your generation will be remembered for. Taking so much away and replacing it with so little of worth.

— Melina Marchetta

A different Australia emerged in the 1950s. A multicultural one, and 30 years on we’re still trying to fit in as ethnics and we’re still trying to fit the ethnics in as Australians.

— Melina Marchetta

I’m frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing’s there.

— Melina Marchetta

I’m just sick of all the misery, my absolute lack of control over everything.

— Melina Marchetta

I feel tears well in my eyes and I can’t even stop them from happening. I can’t stop anything from happening in my life.

— Melina Marchetta

If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.

— Melina Marchetta

If the munchkin, whose face I used to wash, tries to explain to us what a sixty-niner is, I’m going to report myself to child protection.

— Melina Marchetta

You can’t hate what you’re part of. What you are. I resent it most of the time, curse it always, but it’ll be part of me till the day I die.

— Melina Marchetta

In an instant he forgot Joe’s poem about Japan except the part about ‘you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,’ and a new sound entered his life, like when he was a kid and he first heard the sound of horses clip-clopping and he asked his mother in wonder, “What’s that sound, because I’ve never heard it before?

— Melina Marchetta

Guilt is a burden, so forgive yourself for the mistakes.

— Melina Marchetta

And he knew that, but all his life he’d been treated like crap to the point that he believed he was crap. He’d never done anything good and nobody had ever said anything positive about him.

— Melina Marchetta

Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.

— Melina Marchetta
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