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Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Melina Marchetta

Birthname

Birthday: March 25, 1965

Nationality: Australian, Australia

Occupations: Writer, Children's Writer, Screenwriter

Total quotes: 3

“I didn’t realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.”

— Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

Tagged: Hug, Holding Someone, Love

“I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock(Lumatere Chronicles)

Tagged: Hope, Nothingness, Drowning

“The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.”

— Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

Tagged: Depression, pregnant, Family

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