Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name.
Melina MarchettaInstinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.
Melina MarchettaThey separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to me when someone asks them who is in charge.
Melina MarchettaA home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.
Melina MarchettaMaybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.
Melina MarchettaAbout my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.
Melina Marchetta