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Melina Marchetta is an Australian author of young adult fiction.
* She was born in Sydney, Australia in 1965.
* Her parents are Italian immigrants.
* She has a Bachelor of Education degree from the Australian Catholic University.
* She has written five novels, including Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, and On the Jellicoe Road.
* Her books have been translated into over 20 languages.
* She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award and the Michael L. Printz Award.
* She is a role model for young writers, and she continues to inspire readers around the world.

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

Melina Marchetta

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Melina Marchetta

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

Melina Marchetta

Sir Topher finally looked up. Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it. Then I choose to drown, Finnikin said. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.

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 breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.

Melina Marchetta

I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.

Melina Marchetta

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

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