Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 3

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• What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now?" he asks, digging his hands into the pockets of his khaki pants, grinning right back at me. "I think it would cause a riot." "Well, you know me," he says, lowering his head towards me. "Causing a riot is what I do best." Santangelo approaches before Griggs gets any closer and pulls him away. "Are you guys insane?" he says, irritated. "It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians," I say, throwing his own words back at him.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Hands, Ideas

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• I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

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  Italian, Would Be, Gears

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.68, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

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  Falling In Love, Book, People

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• It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi takes off his shirt while he's playing the saxophone. Whoever's not chatting up a Cadet or a girl from Darling House or playing chess with the guys is watching the band. I turn into a groupie.

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  Girl, House, Guy

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• I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look at my beautiful girl.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Hands

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.260, Penguin UK

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• We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women.

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  Kissing, Men, Bed

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• Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.

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  Strong, Know How, Knows

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1232, Penguin UK

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• He just watched the way Finnikin’s hands rested on Evanjalin’s neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.

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  Kissing, Hands, Thumbs

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.231, Penguin UK

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• Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

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  Missing, Feels, Like Something

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

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• I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

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  Party, Thinking, Vote

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Simple dreams are the hardest to come true

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  Dream, Simple, Hardest

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?' 'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.

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  Said, Know How, Knows

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• You just have to belong. Long to be.

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  Long

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphatically. "That's the language I share with them.

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  Children, Warrior, Law

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.162, Penguin UK

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• I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!

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  Tired, People, Sick

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• It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.

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  Morning, Passion, Sleep

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.164, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.

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  Heart, Hands, Pulse

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.

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  Rip, Thinking, Would Be

  "Froi of the Exiles". Book by Melina Marchetta, 2011.

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• Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

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  Years, Waiting, Months

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1163, Penguin UK

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• Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

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  Powerful, Arrows, Knowing

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• I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.

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  Want, Way

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• I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

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  Sorry, Party, Thousand

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I can't wait to tell him one day," she says with a giggle. "'Hey, Chaz, guess what? We knew where your precious car was all the time.' I'd like to take a photo of his face. What do you think?" "I reckon I'd smile really nicely in the photo," Santangelo says behind me, yanking me out of the way, "knowing that you'll be keeping it under your pillow for the rest of your life.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Car

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• What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?" Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me." "Same," Raffy says. I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking.

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  Brother, Memories, Thinking

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• Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I need you to make things real. Walk inside me without silence, Kill the past and change the tense. Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring; Take me places that make more sense.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Heart, Past

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