Jellicoe Road Quotes:

A 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 Marchetta

topic: Home, Long, Jellicoe Road

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Journey, Differences, Breezy, Jellicoe Road, Shangri

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

- Melina Marchetta

source: "Jellicoe Road". Book by Melina Marchetta, September 1, 2008.

topic: Want, Persons, Asks, Jellicoe Road

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

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.1, Harper Collins

topic: Father, Two, Hundred, Miles Away, Jellicoe Road

Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?" Did I wonder? When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know? Wonder dies.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Parent, Black, Bags, Jellicoe Road

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Hands, Might, Disappear, Jellicoe Road

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Grief, People, Forgiving, Jellicoe Road, Can't Forgive

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Memories, Way, Should, Jellicoe Road

So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. He nods. “My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it’s turning me on.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Mother, Thinking, Ideas, Jellicoe Road

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Love, Pain, People, Jellicoe Road, Getting Over It

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Goes On, Strange, Kind, Summer Weather, Jellicoe Road

This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Night, House, Kitchen, Jellicoe Road, Best Night

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance. Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Brother, Years, Alive, Jellicoe Road

When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Letting Go, Kissing, Breathing, Jellicoe Road

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Ideas, Mum, No Idea, Jellicoe Road

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.190, Penguin UK

topic: Heart, Looks, Bottles, Taylor Markham, Jellicoe Road

What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: So Sad, Jellicoe Road

I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Letting Go, Tonight, Want, Jellicoe Road

If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him. He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly. "Not driving any more.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Kissing, Car, Sides, Jellicoe Road, Swerve

I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Morning, Enough, Frightened, Jellicoe Road

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Faces, Forget, Moments, Jellicoe Road

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road

- Melina Marchetta

topic: One Day, Might, Want, Jellicoe Road

I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Tree, Forever, Canopy, Jellicoe Road