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

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

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

“A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.”

“Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.”

“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.”

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

“When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.”

“What I can make people do . . . it’s not what they want to do. It may sound corny, but I want people to like me for me, not because I can force them to or because of who my mom is or who I am in the Family. You know?”

“The wish of death had been palpably hanging over this otherwise idyllic paradise for a good many years.”

“Our hearts are bound together,' he said, 'and I am free to decide who I love. And what I want. Nothing - not the pressure of my family, or what anyone else thinks - matters.”

“-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?”

“But Harry . . . even if we had met and married three years ago, you’d still say it wasn’t enough time.”