Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 12

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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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• ...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

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  Stupid, Men, Mind

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• They either don't get it or don't want to. Maybe I'm just not selling it well.

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  Want, Selling, Wells

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.94, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

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  Running, Thinking, One Day

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• I look around for the counter that sells my scent, but I'm so petrified that if I spray it in the air, nothing will come out. And then Mia's scent seems to fade away and everything else fades away with it and I know that all I have to do to recapture it is press the spray button again.

  Melina Marchetta

  Air, Buttons, Looks

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.

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  Romance, Affirmation, Declaration

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• When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

  Melina Marchetta

  Flattery

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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.

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  Nice, Bullshit, Say Anything

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• Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

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  Meaning Of Life, Red, Hills

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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.

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  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.

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  School, Trying, Stories

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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.

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  Crush, Leader, Soul

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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.

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  Sacrifice, Thinking, Hands

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• If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

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  Savages, Weapons, Existence

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• I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

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  Soccer, Mother, Running

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

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  Believe, Humanity, Can Do

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.123, Penguin UK

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• One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

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  Indulge In, Return, Left Behind

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• You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and stands up. 'You chicks give me the shits,' he says. 'You, on the other hand, brighten up our day,' I tell him. 'We all regard you as a god.

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  Hands, Giving, Judging

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

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  Thinking, Today, Sides

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• Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs

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  School, Holiday, Kyoto

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• I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

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  Tree, Forever, Canopy

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• Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

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  People, World, Satisfaction

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.134, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

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  Three, Seven, Forty

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• Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.

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  Grief, Silence, Soul

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• I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.

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  Grateful, Want, Deep Down

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