Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 5

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

  Melina Marchetta

  Judging, Literacy, Made

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

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

  Melina Marchetta

  Moments, Let Me

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• Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

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  Believe, World, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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?

  Melina Marchetta

  Writing, Past, Honor

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  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.

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  Enough Time, Enough, Not Enough Time

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

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  Hatred, Maps, Body

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

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• Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

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  Grieving, Persons

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.44, Penguin UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Sleep, Fighting, Wake Up

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

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• And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

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  Voice, Soul, Determined

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• Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine.

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  Song, Heart, Comforting

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

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• Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

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  Heart, Rest Of Your Life, Firsts

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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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