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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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She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and Siobhan and Francesca use his body so shamelessly he doesn't feel the need to turn his head and press his mouth against their hair.

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Tired, Hair, Needs

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I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

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Letting Go, Tonight, Want

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Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space. Jonah Griggs is my second reminder to never ever trust another human being. My mother was first.

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Mother, Reality, Names

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This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

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Father, Years, Age

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And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

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Forgiving, Moments, Mets

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Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.

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Night, Years, Ice

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

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Girl, Age, Fourteen

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So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. He nods. “My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it’s turning me on.

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Mother, Thinking, Ideas

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Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?" He loved the flush that appeared on her face, and there was an intake of breath from the girls. "Aldron," she said clearing her throat,"if he agrees to become king, I'm going to let him kiss me. Please don't stop him." Aldron thought for a moment and sighed, holding up his hand. "Wait there and do not move," he ordered Finnikin, before calling out to one of the other guards who stood on the platform. "Ask Perri if he's allowed to touch her if he's agreed to be king.

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Girl, Kings, Moving

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It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

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Girl, Senior, Sports

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy. "And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming," my dad says. Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them. "Lamb roast. Am I invited?

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Dad, Thinking, Shopping

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.123, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

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Dream, Inspiration, Promise

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

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I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

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Scared, States, Yearning

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But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.

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Leader, Enemy, Jonah

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I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

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Two, Passionate, Two Things

Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.290, ReadHowYouWant.com

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How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

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Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.235, Penguin UK

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he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

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Dream, Path, Ache

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Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

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Memories, Way, Should

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Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who will listen. God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true. The first name shatters him. The second makes his head spin.

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Baby, Jesus, Names

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Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what kind of family they are. What word is it that can define them? What would they call his family in the textbooks? Broken? He comes from a broken home. The Mackees can't be put back together again. There are too many pieces of them missing.

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Home, Together Again, Voice

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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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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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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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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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