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He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?" "I don't think you deserve my company but I feel sorry for you so I'll say yes." "God help me," he said, half under his breath.

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Sorry, Eye, Thinking

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.123, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

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Dies

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But it was definitely a car trailing me and quickly I prepared myself for a great dash. I began quickening my step and when it stopped alongside me I could stand it no longer. "My father's a cop and he'll kill you," I screeched without looking. "No, he's a barrister," I heard Michael Andretti say in a calm voice, "and he'll kill you if you don't get into this car.

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Father, Voice, Car

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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.

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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.

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Parent, Black, Bags

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

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The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for oblivion.

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Hair, Sweat, Mind

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

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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

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Evil, Conquer, Humans

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

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Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

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Grief, Silence, Majesty

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We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

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Stupid, Intellectual, Different

Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.296, ReadHowYouWant.com

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One day" came. Because finally I understood.

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One Day, Understood

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.250, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.

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My Birthday, Want, Today

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He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been scum who live by their own rules. No one has ever taught him otherwise.” “Am I to forgive?” she said, her voice shaking with anger. “No,” he said sadly. “Pity him. Or give him new rules. Or put him down like a wild animal before he becomes a monster who destroys everything he encounters.

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Teacher, Animal, Voice

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Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.

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Moments, Let Me

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Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

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Dream, Inspiration, Promise

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

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Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.

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Letting Go, Father, Son

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And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

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Buttons, Adjectives, Nouns

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Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

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Kind, Jellicoe Road

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You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.

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Hurt, Laughing, One Day

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

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Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.” "Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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Boys, Would Be, Too Much

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.127, Penguin UK

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Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate's mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?' she asks earnestly. I look at Hannah, waiting for the answer. And then she smiles. Webb once said that a Narnie smile was a revelation and, at this moment, I need a revelation. And I get one. 'I wonder,' Hannah says.

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Dad, Thinking, Waiting

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You've been quiet these past days," Trevanion said. "Are you going to tell me what the...exchange of words was about?" "Who said there was an exchange of words?" Finnikin asked with irritation. "When a woman says 'I hope you fall under your horse' and 'catch your death, then see if I grieve you,'" Perri said, "then there's been an exchange of words." Finnikin glared at him. "In my humble opinion.

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Horse, Fall, Humble

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Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.

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Dream, Heart, Saws

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Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

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Tyrants, Want, Knows

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1206, Penguin UK

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It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.

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Doors, Mexico, Way

Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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