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It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.

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Doors, Mexico, Way

Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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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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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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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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Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.

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Dream, Heart, Saws

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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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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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Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

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Memories, Way, Should

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Why are you smiling?' Gargarin asked Froi, from across the balconette. 'When you're going to have to learn a lesson in diplomacy today and choose between the gardens of two women?' Froi laughed, his chin resting on Quintana's head, his eyes taking in the joy of his son, despite the ridiculous cap that covered the babe's head. He looked across at Lirah and Arjuro and Rafuel, and then back to Gargarin who was smiling himself, because he knew the answer to his own question. 'Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

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Eye, Son, Garden

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You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.

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Horse, Journey, Agreement

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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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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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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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Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.

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Land, Giving, Valleys

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1332, Penguin UK

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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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