FastSaying

They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice of words.


Melina Marchetta

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
MELINA MARCHETTA The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell hi...
MELINA MARCHETTA The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of ...
M. SCOTT PECK The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Don’t rush to justify yourself with a verbal argument; your choice of words may unmake what you ma...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH They are affordable, and people have established a nice sense of community. Obviously, the neighbors...
BOB DAVIS Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they ...
NEIL POSTMAN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?
MELINA MARCHETTA Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answer...
LEWIS N. ROE Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exce...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the peopl...
MELINA MARCHETTA We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at...
DAVID CROSS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... We have a good blend. We are seeing a lot of the senior people from the area. And for many of them, ...
DEBBIE KING They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.
MICHAEL GRANT Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that y...
MARCEL DUCHAMP It's a treasured moment to do an open discussion with a small group of men. They get to know each ot...
JACK TEMPLETON I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The worry spots are pitcher and catcher. But they just have to have time to get comfortable with eac...
MAX BUKOVAC I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other w...
FERNANDO PESSOA When jurors are forced to spend day and night with each other, apart from their families and friends...
MARCIA CLARK At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information...
JAMES GLEICK It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Those two are just quality kids and quality athletes. They just read each other and have a non-verba...
ED GREENMAN The following are not my words, i have seen it some where . But i wish to share it here for every on...
ANOOP ASHOK Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA The Hoodmen are far from being the worst of the servants of the Cult of the Unwritten Book, but they...
GRANT MORRISON Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragr...
VERA NAZARIAN [on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and l...
KRZYSZTOF KIEśLOWSKI They both have a knack for making tough shots, and it kind of separates them from all the other play...
RON ARTEST The Web has evolved very dramatically from a big library to a library, shopping mall and increasingl...
BART DECREM There was apparently a verbal clash followed by a physical exchange.
TERRY DENBOW Our outfield will be quick. They cover a lot of ground and they all have pretty strong arms.
ELIZABETH CAROSCIO Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS...

More Melina Marchetta

And won’t he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for t...
MELINA MARCHETTA I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released,...
MELINA MARCHETTA Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
MELINA MARCHETTA I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear a...
MELINA MARCHETTA But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understa...
MELINA MARCHETTA Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.
MELINA MARCHETTA When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
Th...
MELINA MARCHETTA The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears.
MELINA MARCHETTA Have you ever seen The Last of the Mohicans?"
"I love it."
"Really?" I'm over the m...
MELINA MARCHETTA Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.

'The first one. I really resent being ca...
MELINA MARCHETTA His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god...
MELINA MARCHETTA When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is...
MELINA MARCHETTA City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
MELINA MARCHETTA We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot."
"Don't say that," I yelled. "You're ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.
MELINA MARCHETTA When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
MELINA MARCHETTA He came third in the state for woodwork,”
Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?
MELINA MARCHETTA Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prison...
MELINA MARCHETTA Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Despite the voice in his head that says he doesn’t want anything that’s owed to his father, Tom ...
MELINA MARCHETTA If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road...
MELINA MARCHETTA My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

I counted.

It happen...
MELINA MARCHETTA I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Be...
MELINA MARCHETTA It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it s...
MELINA MARCHETTA Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that cou...
MELINA MARCHETTA But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the peopl...
MELINA MARCHETTA Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.
MELINA MARCHETTA He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I...
MELINA MARCHETTA I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.
MELINA MARCHETTA I spent the whole morning looking at him. He looked at Mama. Mama looked at me. Then he would look a...
MELINA MARCHETTA You blame me for this, don't you?" he says.
"I don't need to. You're doing a better job.
MELINA MARCHETTA He watched as Finnikin swung onto the horse, his sleeve stained with blood. Froi liked the way Finni...
MELINA MARCHETTA See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.
MELINA MARCHETTA Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.
MELINA MARCHETTA He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in...
MELINA MARCHETTA His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign

For she would be Queen of Lumat...
MELINA MARCHETTA But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had bee...
MELINA MARCHETTA He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons bu...
MELINA MARCHETTA I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.
MELINA MARCHETTA And when Finnikin grabbed her to him and buried his face in her neck and then bent down and placed h...
MELINA MARCHETTA And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of ...
MELINA MARCHETTA A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they...
MELINA MARCHETTA I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her h...
MELINA MARCHETTA You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massac...
MELINA MARCHETTA Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.
MELINA MARCHETTA The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
MELINA MARCHETTA Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protecto...
MELINA MARCHETTA Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?"
He loved the flush th...
MELINA MARCHETTA Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed f...
MELINA MARCHETTA Tell me about the farm," she pleaded as drops of blood began to appear on her hand.
"The farm?...
MELINA MARCHETTA When one is silent, those around speak even more.
MELINA MARCHETTA It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
MELINA MARCHETTA Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which...
MELINA MARCHETTA There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
MELINA MARCHETTA Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords...
MELINA MARCHETTA This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and th...
MELINA MARCHETTA Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared w...
MELINA MARCHETTA Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
MELINA MARCHETTA Ned?' he says, after a while. 'Oi, Ned?'
'What?'
'If someone says to you that the guy they...
MELINA MARCHETTA She looks at Sam. 'Close your ears if you don't want to know what I suspect to be the sex of your ch...
MELINA MARCHETTA He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?"
"I don't think you des...
MELINA MARCHETTA There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.
MELINA MARCHETTA Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better
MELINA MARCHETTA I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkw...
MELINA MARCHETTA I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think...
MELINA MARCHETTA This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying.
"Raffy, half our House has burnt down,"...
MELINA MARCHETTA But it was definitely a car trailing me and quickly I prepared myself for a great dash. I began quic...
MELINA MARCHETTA What did she say to you?"
"Nothing."
"Oh, great. I have to try to get you out of this mess...
MELINA MARCHETTA How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?
MELINA MARCHETTA God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate actio...
MELINA MARCHETTA What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.
MELINA MARCHETTA Play me something that makes me feel;
This soul inside me is made of steel.
Brain is breat...
MELINA MARCHETTA Finnikin had learned over the years not to think of anything beyond the practicalities of getting fr...
MELINA MARCHETTA But Froi looked around with wonder.
As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.
MELINA MARCHETTA People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They�...
MELINA MARCHETTA I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.
Froi shivered. He realised that the wor...
MELINA MARCHETTA Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward...
MELINA MARCHETTA I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappucci...
MELINA MARCHETTA Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people an...
MELINA MARCHETTA You're the father of the person who is my life.
MELINA MARCHETTA I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in.
"He was scared to live," he said kissing ...
MELINA MARCHETTA I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephin...
MELINA MARCHETTA It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. ...
MELINA MARCHETTA I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have o...
MELINA MARCHETTA Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper han...
MELINA MARCHETTA You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and t...
MELINA MARCHETTA One day" came.
Because finally I understood.
MELINA MARCHETTA Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?
I detest that ...
MELINA MARCHETTA It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers.
Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I ...
MELINA MARCHETTA I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
MELINA MARCHETTA You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for the...
MELINA MARCHETTA Simple dreams are the hardest to come true
MELINA MARCHETTA Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A...
MELINA MARCHETTA To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.
MELINA MARCHETTA And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your p...
MELINA MARCHETTA You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the ...
MELINA MARCHETTA I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when th...
MELINA MARCHETTA Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb ins...
MELINA MARCHETTA She asked me what type of contraceptive I use.
Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.
MELINA MARCHETTA Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. Bu...
MELINA MARCHETTA People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.
MELINA MARCHETTA She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is...
MELINA MARCHETTA Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from t...
MELINA MARCHETTA We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and ...
MELINA MARCHETTA sometimes he feels a pull towards Francesca. She was the reason he came into the group. It was her m...
MELINA MARCHETTA What about the contacts your mum had?” his dad asked.
“I rang and spoke to four very polite...
MELINA MARCHETTA There's nothing to took forward to any more if you don't have dreams," he said. "Because dreams are ...
MELINA MARCHETTA You're good enough, Jacob.
MELINA MARCHETTA She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.
MELINA MARCHETTA I won't push you for it anymore, okay. We'll stick to clever conversation.
A bit of this and th...
MELINA MARCHETTA What is it? A prize or something?
No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It b...
MELINA MARCHETTA I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods.
Well then you'll never ...
MELINA MARCHETTA We don't even love each other.
I do a bit, you know.
You do what a bit?
You know. Lik...
MELINA MARCHETTA But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it.
And next year someone...
MELINA MARCHETTA I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.
MELINA MARCHETTA You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. Ther...
MELINA MARCHETTA They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. MELINA MARCHETTA Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names un...
MELINA MARCHETTA I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if I just ...
MELINA MARCHETTA If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I’d...
MELINA MARCHETTA She misses him more now than when he was away
MELINA MARCHETTA Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. E...
MELINA MARCHETTA Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question.
'Are you alone?' he ask...
MELINA MARCHETTA Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.
MELINA MARCHETTA The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.
MELINA MARCHETTA Come here,” she says.
“No, you come here.”
“I said it first.”
“Rock paper...
MELINA MARCHETTA How would you like it if I said to you, 'It kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit bea...
MELINA MARCHETTA And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, a...
MELINA MARCHETTA She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Ja...
MELINA MARCHETTA ...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? ...
MELINA MARCHETTA He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days b...
MELINA MARCHETTA I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of...
MELINA MARCHETTA Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
MELINA MARCHETTA What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell hi...
MELINA MARCHETTA Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.
MELINA MARCHETTA He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.
MELINA MARCHETTA The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would...
MELINA MARCHETTA Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that I can s...
MELINA MARCHETTA And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. B...
MELINA MARCHETTA I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develo...
MELINA MARCHETTA My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To...
MELINA MARCHETTA Guess what?' Fitz said.
'I don't know,' Jude said. 'What? Narnie smiled?' He glanced at her for...
MELINA MARCHETTA What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"I...
MELINA MARCHETTA If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the be...
MELINA MARCHETTA No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I...
MELINA MARCHETTA These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell...
MELINA MARCHETTA Never,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.
MELINA MARCHETTA And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
MELINA MARCHETTA From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.
MELINA MARCHETTA Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.
MELINA MARCHETTA Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?
MELINA MARCHETTA He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fuck...
MELINA MARCHETTA Hold my hand because I might disappear.
MELINA MARCHETTA One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left beh...
MELINA MARCHETTA We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?
MELINA MARCHETTA This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H...
MELINA MARCHETTA Stop. Revive. Survive
MELINA MARCHETTA From the stage Ben catches my eye. "This is for them, Taylor," he calls out as they begin to play. I...
MELINA MARCHETTA He took her face in his bloody hands. 'I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breath...
MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T
rang you over and over again and you woul...
MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev...
MELINA MARCHETTA I just stare at him. I want to ask him a thousand questions, but I can tell he doesn't want to be as...
MELINA MARCHETTA Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them i...
MELINA MARCHETTA And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
He wished th...
MELINA MARCHETTA We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have ...
MELINA MERCOURI You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you some...
MELINA MERCOURI It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter ...
MELINA KANAKAREDES Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and k...
MELINA KANAKAREDES There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.
MELINA MERCOURI We lived in Little Elm many years ago, from 1963 to 1975, and I continue to reside close to Little E...
MELINA SMITH We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.
MELINA KENNEDY And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of ...
MELINA MERCOURI People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and...
MELINA KANAKAREDES Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis t...
MELINA MERCOURI I don't really pay a whole lot of attention to the numbers and the things that bear out during the d...
MELINA KENNEDY