Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 6

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• Causing a riot is what I do best.

  Melina Marchetta

  Riot

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• Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.

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  Character, Aunt, Thinking

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• I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, "Frankie, you're silly, you're lazy, you're talented, you're passionate, you're restrained, you're blossoming, you're contrary." I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one.

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  Girl, Sweet, Silly

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You're the father of the person who is my life.

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  Father, Persons

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.65, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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.

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  Thinking, People, Feels

  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.

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  Mean, Thinking, Return

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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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• I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood.

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  Pride, Thinking, Waiting

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.65, 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.

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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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• So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?" "Men's business. Bit confidential," Griggs says patronisingly. "Wow, wish I were you," Ben says, shaking his head with mock regret. "All I'll be doing tonight is hanging out in Taylor's bedroom, lying on her bed, sharing my earphones with her, hoping she won't hog all the room because it's such a tiny space.

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  Girlfriend, Regret, Lying

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• Coffee?" Santangelo calls down to us. We both look up. He,Ben, and Raffy are hanging over the side. "Is it espresso?" Anson Choi asks behind us. "Freshly percolated," Ben answers. "You should see the gadgets they have up here." Anson Choi aims a begging look at Griggs. "You want to sell out over a coffee?" Griggs asks him with disgust. "They've got muffins as well," I tell them. "Double chocolate chip. His mum made them." Griggs gets up and holds out a hand to me. "Truce.

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  Coffee, Hands, Espresso

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• I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

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  Two, Passionate, Two Things

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.290, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

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  Children, Suffering, Want

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

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• Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his mother. Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way. "You've just made our hit list," he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.

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  Mother, Car, Pockets

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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.

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  Good Day, Bad Day, Twenties

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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.

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  Daughter, Father, Thinking

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

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• You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.

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  Fire, Fruitcake, Homicidal

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• Their bedroom has always been our sanctuary. Sometimes at night we'll end up on their bed just talking. My dad will be snoring and Mia will say, "Turn around, Bobby, you're snoring," and he'll turn around and for a moment it'll be silent. Then he'll erupt into a massive snore and Luca and I will kill ourselves laughing and my dad will wake up and bark, "Get to bed!" and not even a second later he'll be snoring and we'll kill ourselves laughing again and Mia will say, "What is this? Grand Central Station?

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  Dad, Night, Talking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.18, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories. My mother urges me to write them down because, "You're the last of the Markhams, my love." So I record dates and journeys and personalities and traits and heroes and losers and weaknesses and strengths and I try to capture every one of those people because one day I'll need what they had to offer.

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  Summer, Mother, Laughter

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• you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.

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  Hands, Alive, Breathe

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.330, Penguin UK

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• That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

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  Want Something, Giving, Return

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

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  Fighting, Looks, Fierce

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• We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?

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  Okay, Halfway

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.111, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock." "Cows?" Anson Choi asks, covering his nose. "Pigs, too. And horses. Great for growing tomatoes. The Cadets are wanna-be soldiers. City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. "I'm going to throw up," one of the guys says. "Don't feel too bad," I explain. "Some of our lot did while they were laying out this stuff. Actually, right there where you're standing.

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  Horse, Fighting, College

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• You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.

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  Dumb, Dumb Things, Looks

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.160, Penguin UK

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