Does it help?” he asks. “The e-mailing.” She nods. “A tiny bit. It’s strange. You’re writing a letter to someone who’s never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.

— Melina Marchetta

Do not cry,” she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. “Do not cry, Mannikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.

— Melina Marchetta

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

— Melina Marchetta

Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

— Melina Marchetta

Do you miss being friends with San tangelo?" 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 think she's going to say something more, but she doesn't, and it's just silence for a long while.

— Melina Marchetta

Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?" Hanging out with Jimmy Haller will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I'm not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It's bad enough that I'm sharing chocolate brownies with him. I shake my head. "Not today.

— Melina Marchetta

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep, and they beg just like the rest of us.

— Melina Marchetta

Each day, at the same time, Jude would return, and they would be there, led by Webb, whose life could not have been more different than his. Where Webb's memories of childhood were idyllic and earthy, Jude's reeked of indifference. Webb read fantasy; Jude read realism. Webb believed a tree house was the perfect place for gaining a different perspective on the world; Jude saw it as perfect for surveillance and working out who or what was a threat to them. They argued about sport codes and song lyrics. Jude saw the rain-dirty valley; Webb saw Brigadoon. Yet, despite all this, they connected, and the nights they spent in the tree house discussing their brave new worlds and not so brave emotions made everything else in their lives insignificant. Somehow the world of Webb and Fitz and Tate and Arnie became the focus of Jude's life.

— Melina Marchetta

Even five minutes of your time can make someone’s day,

— Melina Marchetta

Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.

— Melina Marchetta