Jellicoe Road Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. On the Jellicoe road

Mellina Fanouris

#4. 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

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

Melina Marchetta

#6. True fasting is not just depriving ourselves of privilege but als osharing sacrificially tob ring an end to the cycles of inequality, an end to creation's groaning and the groaning of hungry bellies.

Shane Claiborne

#7. 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

#8. Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

Sonia Gandhi

#9. I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

Melissa Etheridge

#10. Moderation He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door Embittering all his state Horace, from Odes, Book II, translated by William Cowper

Daisy Goodwin

#11. I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain't godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn't care.

China Mieville

#12. 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

#13. After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

Naoto Kan

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

Melina Marchetta

#15. 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

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

Melina Marchetta

#17. Just resign yourself to the fact that you're going to be miserable so you can finally be happy. (It's a sound theory if you think about it hard enough.)

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Hold my hand because I might disappear.

Melina Marchetta

#19. Love yourself, open your heart which means doing the work on yourself first. Then love will follow.

Emily Morse

#20. Advisory: If your husband catches an ebolavirus, give him food and water and love and maybe prayers but keep your distance, wait patiently, hope for the best-- and, if he dies, don't clean out his bowels by hand. Better to step back, blow a kiss, and burn the hut.

David Quammen

#21. It is wondrous, Will Henry," breathed the monstrumologist over the maddening hum of the flies. "I feared we might be wrong-that Socotra was not the *locus ex magnificum*. But we have found it, haven't we? And is it not wondrous?"
I agreed with him. It was wondrous.

Rick Yancey

#22. Where before we Comanches had simply stared at her femaleness, we now glared at it. She smiled back at us. It was a shade disconcerting. Then the Chief took over, revealing what had formerly been a well-concealed flair for incompetence.

J.D. Salinger

#23. It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Melina Marchetta

#25. Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#26. Even if you lose love, it's never really gone. It stays in you forever. The risks of love are always worth it.

Karina Halle

#27. 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