Saving Francesca Quotes:

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

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

topic: Awkward, Red, Faces, Defenseless, Saving Francesca

Do something that scares you everyday.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Everyday, Scare, Saving Francesca

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

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.

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Girl, Sweet, Silly, Stella, Mia

It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Morning, Sleep, Eye, Justine, Ammo

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Thinking, Foundation, Shakes, Saving Francesca

For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image he displays. Maybe deep down he is a sensitive guy, who sees us as real people with real issues. I want to say something nice. Some kind of thanks. I stand there, rehearsing it in my mind. "Oh my God," he says, "did you see that girl's tits?" Maybe not today.

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Girl, Real, Nice, Rehearsing, Display

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Missing, Feels, Like Something, Saving Francesca

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Stupid, Night, Thinking, Justine, Between You And Me

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