{"author":"Melina Marchetta","author_id":"Melina+Marchetta","total_quotes":146,"quotes":[{"text":"She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["fear","georgie","worry"],"id":3189,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["dreams","kings","lives","loss","queens","rulership"],"id":14349,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["depression"],"id":15756,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["inspirational"],"id":16332,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["self-worth"],"id":20119,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["anger","hiding","thomas"],"id":27702,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["self-worth"],"id":29062,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, 'Frankie, you're silly, you're lazy, you're talented, you're passionate, you're restrained, you're blossoming, you're contrary.'I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["young-adult"],"id":30145,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"So I'm cruising down the road and the object of my thoughts is racing down the street, screaming that her father is a cop. A public servant, very flattering'  ' I like a man in uniform' He laughed. 'Do you like pizza?' 'What a ridiculous question. I suppose you're going to ask me if I like pasta next?","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["humour"],"id":32370,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don't want to leave it, others because the world around them won't let them in.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["family","society"],"id":35430,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":146,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}