Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About Melina Marchetta
Australian writer and teacher
Melina Marchetta is an Australian writer and teacher, known for her young adult novels and for the books that have made her a familiar name in contemporary Australian fiction. She is best known for Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca and On the Jellicoe Road. Her work has been recognised with the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers twice, in 1993 and 2004, and with the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award for Jellicoe Road, given by the American Library Association for the year's best book for young adults.
More from Melina Marchetta (98 quotes) →Other sayings from Melina Marchetta
- “You can't go around feeling too much.”Melina Marchetta
- “Arjuro made a scoffing sound. ‘You think Lumatere will invade because of you? Are you that important?’Froi lo…”Melina Marchetta
- “And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing t…”Melina Marchetta
- “I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their ow…”Melina Marchetta
Science: more sayings
- “And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call…”Thomas Mann
- “You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.”Imogen Cunningham
- “As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading pu…”Gregory Benford
More Books quotes
- “I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like...…”Rick Riordan
- “For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.”Lee Child
- “At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury…”William Styron
READ THE SOURCE
Books by Melina Marchetta
Looking for Alibrandi
2006
Finnikin of the rock
2008