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 in On the Jellicoe Road

About Melina Marchetta

Carmelina Marchetta (born 25 March 1965) is an Australian writer and teacher. Marchetta is best known as the author of teen novels, Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca and On the Jellicoe Road. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, in 1993 and...

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A piece of me is gone. I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

—Melina Marchetta in Saving Francesca

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you’re watching someone die.

—Melina Marchetta in On the Jellicoe Road

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I believe that people come into your life and then some go. I also think there’s a purpose as to why they were in your life at all. Each one takes a piece of you when they go. Some leave pieces of themselves with you. Sometimes it’s wisdom, or maybe, it’s a lesson.

—Shey Stahl in Waiting for You

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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

—Albert Schweitzer

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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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No matter what anybody says about grief, and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

—Tiffanie DeBartolo in God-Shaped Hole

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It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

—Eugene McCarthy

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