Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 7

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• What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

  Melina Marchetta

  Want, Persons, Asks

  "Jellicoe Road". Book by Melina Marchetta, September 1, 2008.

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• I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

  Melina Marchetta

  Nice, Bullshit, Say Anything

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• Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Home, Differences

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• As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  School, Trying, Stories

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• I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.

  Melina Marchetta

  Crush, Leader, Soul

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• These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking. Jonah Griggs takes my hand under the table and links my fingers with his and I know that I would sacrifice almost anything just to keep this state of mind, for the rest of the week at least.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Hands

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• How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

  Melina Marchetta

  Faces, Forget, Moments

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• When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance. Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

  Melina Marchetta

  Brother, Years, Alive

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• We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was one of the best days of his life and then he took out his gun. A .22 rifle. And he leaned forward and whispered, "Forgive me, Taylor Markham." Before I could ask how he knew my name and what I was to forgive him for he said, "Take care of my little girl." And then he told me to close my eyes. And I've been frightened to do just that ever since.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Dream, Eye

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• This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, House, Kitchen

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• What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others. "It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say. "Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through." That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.

  Melina Marchetta

  Couple, Waiting, Looks

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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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Boys, Would Be, Too Much

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

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• When I grow, I'm going to be my mother.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Grows

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• You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Foundation, Shakes

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.193, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.

  Melina Marchetta

  Lazy, Comfort, Overrated

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• Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.

  Melina Marchetta

  Grief, Silence, Soul

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• No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Looks, Bottles

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him. He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly. "Not driving any more.

  Melina Marchetta

  Kissing, Car, Sides

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• See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.

  Melina Marchetta

  People, Remember

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• No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

  Melina Marchetta

  Cutting, Hands, Giving

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• It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians

  Melina Marchetta

  Ideas, Peaceful, Trying

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• When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.

  Melina Marchetta

  Winning, Years, Two

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• Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.

  Melina Marchetta

  War, Mistake, Voice

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• Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Names, Middle

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• Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around. If something happens to him, I have to know that I won't fall apart.

  Melina Marchetta

  Fall, Thinking, Want

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