Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sorry, Eye, Thinking

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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