Melina Marchetta Quotes

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• 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

  Love, Pain, Forget Everything

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• When one is silent, those around speak even more.

  Melina Marchetta

  Speak, Silent

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• I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

  Melina Marchetta

  Medicine, Hug, Realizing

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.229, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.

  Melina Marchetta

  Depression, Mother, Baby

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.75, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Do something that scares you everyday.

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  Everyday, Scare, Saving Francesca

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.197, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Even five minutes of your time can make someone's day.

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  Minutes, Five, Five Minutes

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• Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.

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  Memories, Filth, Spirit

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• My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and let it take me. But I know sooner or later I will have to get out, that I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes - the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.

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  Eye, Cutting, Feet

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• Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.

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  Doors, Next, Worst

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.285, Penguin UK

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• About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.

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  Memories, Lying, Father

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• I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.

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  Love, Morning, Names

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.867, Penguin UK

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• She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.

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  Pregnancy, Underwear, Use

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• See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

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  Together, Force, Feels

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.219, Penguin UK

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• Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.

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  Feelings, Doe, May

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.39, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.

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  Mean, Giving, Want

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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  Father, Two, Breezy

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

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• Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

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  Children, Mean, People

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• There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

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  Needs, Use, World

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.639, Penguin UK

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• Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.' 'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  Kings, Hate, Boys

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• A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Shopping, Different

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.10, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

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  Fragments, Worst

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.349, Penguin UK

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

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  Goes On, Strange, Kind

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• I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.

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  Running, One Day, Ran

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• His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Half, Towns

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• But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.

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  Daughter, Years, One Day

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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