There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning of winter.’ ‘Oh the poor animal,’ she cried out, ‘they’re such beautiful creatures.’ ‘I’m speaking of the royal seal placed on correspondence, as you would know,’ he said.
Melina MarchettaAnd then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.
Melina MarchettaThis is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.
Melina MarchettaIf we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.
Melina Marchetta