Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 8

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• He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

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  Tough Times, Proud, Week

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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.

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  Want, Persons, Asks

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

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• He watched as Finnikin swung onto the horse, his sleeve stained with blood. Froi liked the way Finnikin reached behind him and took Evanjalin's hand, placing it around his waist. It made everything seem normal because Finnikin always wanted to touch her.

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  Horse, Blood, Hands

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• If she’s out here and not locked up in the barracks, I’ll know,” he said. He took a deep breath and whistled. “You share a whistle?” Trevanion said in disbelief. “Do you have a problem with that?” Finnikin asked. “I have a few whistles,” Lucian murmured. “Very confusing sometimes.” “Whistles are meant for combat,” Trevanion said. “Not wooing women. Women do not understand whistles.

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  Confusing, Problem, Sometimes

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.264, Penguin UK

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• It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

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  Men, Doe, Stranger

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• Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.

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  Land, Giving, Valleys

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1332, Penguin UK

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• Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

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  Echoes, Voice, Gorges

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• To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

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  Medicine

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• There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

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  Lying

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• If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

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  Needs, Demand, Want

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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.

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  Summer, Laughter, Weather

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• But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.

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  Leader, Enemy, Jonah

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• I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

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  Scared, States, Yearning

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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.

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  Fall, Thinking, Want

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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.

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  Girl, Names, Middle

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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.

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  War, Mistake, Voice

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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.

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  Winning, Years, Two

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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

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  Ideas, Peaceful, Trying

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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 [...]

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  Cutting, Hands, Giving

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

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  People, Remember

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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.

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  Kissing, Car, Sides

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• The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

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  Tools, Mortals

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• And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I don't want my parents or brother knowing, Will's like, 'We'll deal with it.' He's never said, 'I'll fix it up.' He just says, 'You're not up to going back to uni to finish your Honours this year? Big deal. There's next year. We'll deal with it.'" She nods. "That's what he does well.

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  Brother, Years, Knowing

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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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• 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.

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  Girl, Names, Giving

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