On The 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. 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

#7. Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#8. Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?

Anne Rice

#9. 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

#10. Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

Meital Dohan

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

Melina Marchetta

#12. 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

#13. software and gadgets. I am sure this project would have taken twice as long without your help.

T.J. Garrett

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

Melina Marchetta

#15. She has known all the time that I cared for her
though I never said a word of my love to her

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. Khaldoun believed that the great curse of civilization is not war or famine but humidity: "When the moisture, with its evil vapors ascends to the brain, the mind and body and the ability to think are dulled. The result is stupidity, carelessness and a general intemperance.

Eric Weiner

#17. Hold my hand because I might disappear.

Melina Marchetta

#18. Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

Stephenie Meyer

#19. I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.

Paul Pierce

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

Melina Marchetta

#21. Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

Max Muller

#22. 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