Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 10

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• How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

  Melina Marchetta

  Faces, Forget, Moments

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• When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance. Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

  Melina Marchetta

  Brother, Years, Alive

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• Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?" "I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt laying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her." "Oh, too profound, my friend. Much too profound.

  Melina Marchetta

  Morning, Queens, Sleep

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• When I grow, I'm going to be my mother.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Grows

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• I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said. Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked. 'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth. And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, Ice, Ideas

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• We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was one of the best days of his life and then he took out his gun. A .22 rifle. And he leaned forward and whispered, "Forgive me, Taylor Markham." Before I could ask how he knew my name and what I was to forgive him for he said, "Take care of my little girl." And then he told me to close my eyes. And I've been frightened to do just that ever since.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Dream, Eye

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• This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, House, Kitchen

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• What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others. "It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say. "Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through." That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.

  Melina Marchetta

  Couple, Waiting, Looks

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• Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.” "Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

  Melina Marchetta

  Boys, Would Be, Too Much

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking. Jonah Griggs takes my hand under the table and links my fingers with his and I know that I would sacrifice almost anything just to keep this state of mind, for the rest of the week at least.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Hands

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• Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.

  Melina Marchetta

  Lazy, Comfort, Overrated

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• What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

  Melina Marchetta

  Want, Persons, Asks

  "Jellicoe Road". Book by Melina Marchetta, September 1, 2008.

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• To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

  Melina Marchetta

  Medicine

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• Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Home, Differences

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• As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  School, Trying, Stories

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• Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sacrifice, Rewards, Born

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.644, Penguin UK

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• In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.

  Melina Marchetta

  Life, Mean, Flirting

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• Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

  Melina Marchetta

  Firsts, Idiot, Resent

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.527, Penguin UK

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• No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.

  Melina Marchetta

  Apology, Stories, Rest Of Your Life

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• But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hands, Earth, Made

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.340, Penguin UK

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• I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

  Melina Marchetta

  Voice, Hysteria, Empathy

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.177, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.

  Melina Marchetta

  Crush, Leader, Soul

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• 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

  Girl, Real, Nice

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

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• I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

  Melina Marchetta

  Nice, Bullshit, Say Anything

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• Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.' And she wept to hear his words.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hands, Voice, Body

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