Melina Marchetta Quotes About Police

Quotes about: Police

• 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

  Girl, Father, Boys

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the boundaries." "We've seen you in your jocks," she reminds him. "Taylor and Griggs have pashed. You've broken into your father's police station for us. Don't you think the war has lost a bit of its tension?

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, War, Thinking

• I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dad, Son, Police

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