Quotes by Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta

…the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

Men

Mind

Stupid

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…what was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us,” Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her and there’s a lot of beaming happening.

Beam

Happenings

Kind

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A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

Blind

Men

Soul

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A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

Clean

East

House

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A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.

Home

Jellicoe Road

Long

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A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it’s called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.’ ‘Let me tell you something, Olivier,’ she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, ‘this is my real world.

Eye

Princess

Real

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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.

Different

Shopping

Thinking

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A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.

Entrances

Underestimated

World

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About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.

Father

Lying

Memories

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According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I’ll thank him for the advice.

Character

Self

Writing

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