Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 5

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• It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

  Melina Marchetta

  Daughter, Father, Thinking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.66, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down and I'll wake up in a morgue.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sleep, Fighting, Wake Up

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.156, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.

  Melina Marchetta

  Children, Suffering, Want

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

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• Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mean, Thinking, Return

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• He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.

  Melina Marchetta

  Good Day, Bad Day, Twenties

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• You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, People, Feels

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.227, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

  Melina Marchetta

  Grieving, Paper, Pages

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• We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

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  Humility, Awkward, Looks

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.53, Penguin UK

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• Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from here. I had to sleep at the Santangelo penitentiary for pre-pubescent girls.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Sleep, Thinking

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• He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

  Melina Marchetta

  Ideas, Mum, No Idea

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• Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

  Melina Marchetta

  Lonely, Dark, Night

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• I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.

  Melina Marchetta

  Enough Time, Enough, Not Enough Time

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• Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hatred, Maps, Body

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.482, Penguin UK

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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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Awkward, Red, Faces

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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