Quotes
Authors
Melina Marchetta

"Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone."

-- Melina Marchetta

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“There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.”
“The moment you're too apologetic about something and people know that something isn't finished, they listen/look for the mistakes or cracks, but if you act like it's done people experience things in a totally different way.”
“The word itself has another color. Itâ€™s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the relief at the end, the whew. It hasnâ€™t the sly turn which crimson takes halfway through, yellowâ€™s deceptive jelly, or the rolled-down sound in brown. It hasnâ€™t violetâ€™s rapid sexual shudder or like a rough road the irregularity of ultramarine, the low puddle in mauve like a pancake covered in cream, the disapproving purse to pink, the assertive brevity of red, the whine of green.”
“And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.”
“I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.”
“Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.â€ He took a giant whiff. â€œWhy does everything girlie smell so delightful?â€ â€œBecause we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.â€ â€œBrilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.”
“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”
“I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like I'm more of a queen." A vein in his temple began to throb, and she grew bolder, the sense of power emanating from the mark on her chest filing her with the mettle she'd lost after the break-in two years ago. Lowering her voice to a tense whisper, she nipped his earlobe. "Checkmate.”

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