Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 13

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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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• 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 home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.

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  Home, Long, Jellicoe Road

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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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• 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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• Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

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  Fighting, Looks, Fierce

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• You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.

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  Dumb, Dumb Things, Looks

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.160, Penguin UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• Come here,” she says. “No, you come here.” “I said it first.” “Rock paper scissors.” “No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then you’ll win.” Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first.

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  Winning, Rocks, Hands

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• You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on their face, or a tone in their voice, or a way they walk, that you’ve never ever seen before. Like they’ve kept it hidden. Until their brother dies. Or their son. I remember those days and they were like these strangers and I wanted to say, Who are you people?

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  Brother, Son, Expression

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• He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

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  Tough Times, Proud, Week

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• Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

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  Wells, Toms

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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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• 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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• I love it when you're demented like this.

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  Demented

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like what I see. Someone who actually fails. Someone who has absolutely no self-control. Someone who says real dickhead things like 'this is complicated.' I like that part of me, you know. I like the fact that I know I can't control you or how I feel about you and that doesn't freak me out.

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  Real, Self, Control Someone

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

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  Echoes, Voice, Gorges

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