Will Trombal Quotes:

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Laughing, Satisfaction, Will Trombal

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Thinking, People, Doe, Will Trombal, Saving Francesca

Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Character, Aunt, Thinking, Will Trombal, Saving Francesca

Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Girl, Father, Boys, Justine, Weird People

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Sorry, Party, Thousand, Will Trombal

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.163, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Want, Matter, Firsts, Will Trombal, Saving Francesca