Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 8

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• The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.

  Melina Marchetta

  People, Stuck

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Soul, Blind

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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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Blessed, Men, Guilt

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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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• He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was.

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  Men, Should Have, Common Sense

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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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• The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

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  Girl, Taken, Eye

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• And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.

  Melina Marchetta

  Running, Love You, People

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

  Melina Marchetta

  Want, Littles, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2014). “Looking for Alibrandi: Australian Puffin Classics”, p.154, Penguin UK

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• So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road

  Melina Marchetta

  One Day, Want, Might

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• I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.

  Melina Marchetta

  Grateful, Want, Deep Down

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• What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Crush, Kids

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• Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Father, Boys

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.167, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

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  Rocks, Paper, Scissors

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to me when someone asks them who is in charge.

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  Groups, Peers, Weak

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• ...what was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us," Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her and there's a lot of beaming happening.

  Melina Marchetta

  Kind, Beam, Happenings

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• What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.

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  Listening, Stories, Intriguing

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• I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone.

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  Love You, Thinking, Hair

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• This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.

  Melina Marchetta

  War, Thank God, Wells

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• Who do you hang out with?" Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid.

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  Looks, Done, Speak

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• He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him. "I love that word filthy. I love the way you force it out of your mouth like it's some kind of vermin you want to get rid of." "You've had vermin in your mouth?" "You're mean in that way, you know. You don't let anyone get away with pathetic analogies.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mean, Trying, Analogies

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• I fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to ensure that I won't." "But what if you bring harm or fail to protect those you don't know? Or don't love? Will you care as much?" "Probably not." "Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.

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  What If, Care, Failing

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• I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?" "I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues. "Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look. "Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Names, Giving

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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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