Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 12

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• I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It’s a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

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  Lazy, Watches, Looks

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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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• 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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• 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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• Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry over and over again, and I figure somewhere down the track we'll work out the right way of doing this but I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being a part of him. Because being a part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

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  Letting Go, Hurt, Sorry

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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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• Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he asks quietly. He hears her breathing so close to his ear. 'Yes.' 'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.

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  Baby, Stupid, Sleep

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• Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.

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  Team, Plant, Yeah

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• No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

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  Dad, Hands, Mum

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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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• Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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  Floats

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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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• Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

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  Apology, Pride, Keys

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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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• You've been quiet these past days," Trevanion said. "Are you going to tell me what the...exchange of words was about?" "Who said there was an exchange of words?" Finnikin asked with irritation. "When a woman says 'I hope you fall under your horse' and 'catch your death, then see if I grieve you,'" Perri said, "then there's been an exchange of words." Finnikin glared at him. "In my humble opinion.

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  Horse, Fall, Humble

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• The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered and he looks a bit crestfallen when I say no. "It's because they don't have coverage out here," Griggs tells him. "No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

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  Heart, Numbers, Nerd

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• A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

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  House, East, Clean

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Flattery

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• My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.

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  Father, Ocean, Journey

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

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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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• I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

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  Uncles, Laughing, Wish

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• Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.

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  Character, Aunt, Thinking

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• That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

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  Want Something, Giving, Return

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Causing a riot is what I do best.

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  Riot

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• And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

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  Buttons, Adjectives, Nouns

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