Haylee

“It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Tea Rose

“Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate's mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?' she asks earnestly.
I look at Hannah, waiting for the answer. And then she smiles. Webb once said that a Narnie smile was a revelation and, at this moment, I need a revelation. And I get one.
'I wonder,' Hannah says.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.”
― Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn

“I think back to my dream of the boy, because in it I find solace. I like that word. I'm going to make it my word of the year. There is just something about that boy that makes me feel like I belong. Belong. Long to be. Weird word, but semantics aside, it is up there with solace.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road