Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 13

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• You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

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  Jobs, Needs, Blame

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• This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.

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  War, Thank God, Wells

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• Who do you hang out with?" Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid.

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  Looks, Done, Speak

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• The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.

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  People, Stuck

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him. "I love that word filthy. I love the way you force it out of your mouth like it's some kind of vermin you want to get rid of." "You've had vermin in your mouth?" "You're mean in that way, you know. You don't let anyone get away with pathetic analogies.

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  Mean, Trying, Analogies

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• I fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to ensure that I won't." "But what if you bring harm or fail to protect those you don't know? Or don't love? Will you care as much?" "Probably not." "Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.

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  What If, Care, Failing

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• If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

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  Sight, Who We Are, Forget

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• She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

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  Fear, Believe, Names

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• I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone.

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  Love You, Thinking, Hair

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• What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.

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  Listening, Stories, Intriguing

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• ...what was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us," Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her and there's a lot of beaming happening.

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  Kind, Beam, Happenings

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• So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road

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  One Day, Want, Might

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• I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

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  Want, Littles, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2014). “Looking for Alibrandi: Australian Puffin Classics”, p.154, Penguin UK

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• And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.

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  Running, Love You, People

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless. Like I used to be.

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  Girl, Thinking, Fearless

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.160, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

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  Rocks, Paper, Scissors

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?

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  Girl, Crush, Kids

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• They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to me when someone asks them who is in charge.

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  Groups, Peers, Weak

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• Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.

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  Simple, Thinking, Hands

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.182, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

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  Grief, Thirty, Hundred

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

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  Firsts, Idiot, Resent

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

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• The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.

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  Winning, Two, Numbers

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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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• People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

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  People, Personality, Suffering

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

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  Years, Personality, Doe

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