Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 14

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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.

  Melina Marchetta

  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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Listening, Stories, Intriguing

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• I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.

  Melina Marchetta

  Block, Two, Buttons

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

  Melina Marchetta

  Writing, Character, Self

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?" Did I wonder? When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know? Wonder dies.

  Melina Marchetta

  Parent, Black, Bags

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

  Melina Marchetta

  Our Words, Language, Lost

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.75, Penguin UK

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• Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer

  Melina Marchetta

  Evil, Conquer, Humans

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.’ ‘Let me tell you something, Olivier,’ she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, ‘this is my real world.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Princess, Eye

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.575, Penguin UK

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• I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Personality, Care

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• And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Kindness, Cadets, Way

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• What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.

  Melina Marchetta

  So Sad, Knows, Our Lives

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• So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

  Melina Marchetta

  Stupid, Night, Thinking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a bit of information that might make sense of something else, it taps you on the head and says, "Remember when you told me to put that memory in the green rubbish bin? Well, I didn't, I put it in the black recycling tub, and it's coming your way again.

  Melina Marchetta

  Memories, Believe, Funny Things

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• Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Father, Boys

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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?

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Crush, Kids

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• Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

  Melina Marchetta

  Life, Years, Challenges

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.227, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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