Jellicoe Road Melina Marchetta Quotes

#1. I'm frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

Melina Marchetta

#2. The formula 'two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Melina Marchetta

#4. I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.

Melina Marchetta

#5. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.

Peggy McIntosh

#6. So, like I asked, what's with the nightie?"
"It smells like what I always think mothers smell like," I tell him honestly, knowing I don't have to explain.
He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

Melina Marchetta

#7. No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

Madeleine Peyroux

#8. Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

Melina Marchetta

#9. Hannah's house has been unfinished ever since I can remember. Deep down I think that's always been a comfort to me, because people don't leave unfinished houses.

Melina Marchetta

#10. I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.

Rick Steves

#11. 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.

Melina Marchetta

#12. Did you ever think you had all the answers when you were in the thick of something, but then when you take a step back, you realize you were so busy getting things done that you never stopped to ask yourself if it's what you really want to do?

Jana Deleon

#13. Viscerally, what Genevieve felt, and it wasn't at all amusing.

Loretta Chase

#14. A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

J.I. Packer

#15. the only true saviours are german

Eckart Tolle

#16. Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

Kate Williams

#17. Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

Dejan Stojanovic

#18. I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Cher Wang

#19. I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

Melina Marchetta

#20. Hold my hand because I might disappear.

Melina Marchetta

#21. Sign this... and I'll show you

A.J. Hartley

#22. Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?" Did I wonder? When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know? Wonder dies.

Melina Marchetta

#23. Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.

Min Kim

#24. What's the difference between a trip and a journey?"
"Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand.

Melina Marchetta

#25. I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

Victor LaValle

#26. But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Melina Marchetta