Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 7

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• A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

  Melina Marchetta

  House, East, Clean

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like what I see. Someone who actually fails. Someone who has absolutely no self-control. Someone who says real dickhead things like 'this is complicated.' I like that part of me, you know. I like the fact that I know I can't control you or how I feel about you and that doesn't freak me out.

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  Real, Self, Control Someone

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I love it when you're demented like this.

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  Demented

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

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  Believe, Boys, Desire

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• My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against the trunk of the tree. "And," he said with another resounding thump, "although I'm very familiar with that part of the female body, I take offense at being labeled one.

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  Mother, Boys, Tree

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

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  Wells, Toms

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• Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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  Floats

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• I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.

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  Thinking, Hands, Knowing

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• Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you think were friends?" "Everything." I hear her yawn. "Being enemies with him is better." she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long while.

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  Thinking, Light, Long

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• Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

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  Pain, Cottages, Made

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• What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.

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  Men, Giving, What If

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1260, Penguin UK

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• Sometimes... sometimes keeping alive is too tiring," she whispered, wringing her hands. Before he knew what he was doing, he pressed his lips against her brow. "Don't ever say that. Ever.

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  Hands, Alive, Lips

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• God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

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  Book, Hands, Action

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.81, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that’s caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you’re gods’ blessed for no other reason, it’s for that.

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  Blessed, Men, Guilt

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• You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

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  Stones, Kingdoms, Able

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• then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long time. It was as if they were dancing. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance.

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  Sight, Long, Dancing

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• Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.' And she wept to hear his words.

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  Hands, Voice, Body

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• People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.

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  Men, People, Despair

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• A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

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  Men, Soul, Blind

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• Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.

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  Running, Distance, Wind

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• Brothers always. Balthazar is with us too. We make this work,' Finnikin said fiercely. 'We bring peace to these kingdoms. We deserve it. Our women do. All of us have lost too much, Froi. We've lost the joy of being children. Let's not take that from Jasmina and Tariq and those who come after them

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  Brother, Children, Joy

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• Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?

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• The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There’s nothing mysterious about his ways. They’re premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.

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  Impossible Situations, Ideas, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.154, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It’s a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

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  Lazy, Watches, Looks

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• Come here,” she says. “No, you come here.” “I said it first.” “Rock paper scissors.” “No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then you’ll win.” Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first.

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  Winning, Rocks, Hands

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