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• Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

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  Children, Mean, People

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• In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

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  Dream, Kings, Queens

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1279, Penguin UK

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• And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.

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  Hate, Feelings, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.92, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

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  Needs, Use, World

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.639, Penguin UK

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• City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

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  Fighting, Cities, People

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• Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

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  Fragments, Worst

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.349, Penguin UK

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• A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

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  Thinking, Shopping, Different

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.10, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.' 'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine.

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  Kings, Hate, Boys

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• And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

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  Goes On, Strange, Kind

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• Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I'm about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again.

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  Flying, Noses, Next

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.230, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’ She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. ‘This is not our time.’ ‘But that will never mean I love you less,’ he said.

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  Regret, Fall, Love You

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• But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.

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  Daughter, Years, One Day

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in. "He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.

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  Kissing, Scared, Said

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.281, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

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  Grief, People, Forgiving

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• His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

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  Father, Half, Towns

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• What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

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  Journey, Differences, Breezy

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• She misses him more now than when he was away

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  Missing

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• I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.

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  Home, Hair, Supper

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.236, Penguin UK

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• I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.

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  Running, One Day, Ran

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• In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

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  Vices, Ends

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• She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

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  School, Over It

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• You can't go around feeling too much.

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  Feelings, Too Much

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.376, Penguin UK

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• I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

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  Thinking, Years, Remember

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.164, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.

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  People, Dangerous

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• I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are.

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  Father, Giving, Trying

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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