Truth Quote by Melina Marchetta — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying.”

“Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.”

“What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly.”

“Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.”

“I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.”

“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.”

“I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.”

“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.”

“Beasts bounding through time.”

“The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.”

“If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.”