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.

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Love, Pain, Forget Everything

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When one is silent, those around speak even more.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.

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Past, Pieces, May

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is running toward me, and I can tell by the look on her face that she's found out about the musical, too. I sigh, shaking my head. "I have to give Justine a lesson in holding back," I tell him. "She's just way too enthusiastic". She grabs my arms in excitement. "We're doing Les Mis." I scream hysterically, clutching her as we jump up and down.

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Running, Eye, Years

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How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.

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Heart, Eye, Seven Days

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.874, Penguin UK

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And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what that was, and she said, "If you're one of the lucky ones, you'll know it when you see it. You'll understand why the gods have made you suffer. Because that moment's reward will make your knees weak and everything you've suffered in life will pale in comparison.

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Suffering, Lucky, Knees

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Because being so dependent on people scares me.

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People, Scare, Dependent

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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.

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Want, Matter, Firsts

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.163, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.

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Covered Up, Secret, Made

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She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at the lights and will pushes tom's hand out of the way and and shoves it into the correct gear."it wasn't her" he mutters after a moment."sorry?" tom says."she didn't cry""then what?"it's too quiet except for the quiet for the crap engine sounding like a lawn mower."i cried"luca bursts out laughing beside will."yeah, well i did" will says. "And it's not the thing you want to do in front of a bunch on engineers.

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Sorry, Light, Hands

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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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In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

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Dream, Kings, Queens

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1279, Penguin UK

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