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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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It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

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

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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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It's not that I like you least [...] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.

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I Like You, Love You, Joy

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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.

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Real, Heart, Past

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Woman, I’m trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?

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Fighting, Trying, Attention

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.187, Penguin UK

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Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

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House, Middle East, Want

Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.

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Country, Feel Better, People

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

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Awkward, Red, Faces

Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

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Selfish, Grief, Grieving

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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!

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Stupid, Night, Thinking

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

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Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.

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Enemy, Way, Weakness

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.414, Penguin UK

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What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

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Cutting, Trying, Wicked

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You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming.

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Dream, Hate, Smart

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.229, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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.

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Girl, Father, Boys

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

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I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.

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Brother, Broken Spirit, Bones

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You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

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Judging, Literacy, Made

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

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And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you that day and you looked at peace with yourself and it made me reconsider everything I had planned to do. Because I thought to myself, you can't do this to her, not after the Hermit thing." "Do what to me? I don't think leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs," I lie. "You being on that platform changed mine.

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Lying, Eye, Thinking

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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was.

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Men, Should Have, Common Sense

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It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore.

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Girl, Home, Thinking

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

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So Sad, Knows, Our Lives

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You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

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Writing, Past, Honor

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.106, Penguin UK

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And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.

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Heart, Hands, Mind

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It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

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Promise, Chance, Mates

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And we all end up where we started

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Ends

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.140, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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