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

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Lying

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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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She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.

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Beautiful, Alive, World

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.202, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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You're good enough, Jacob.

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Good Enough, Enough, Jacob

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.202, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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We don't even love each other. I do a bit, you know. You do what a bit? You know. Like you...whatever...love you a bit. I think I kind of love you too.

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Love You, Thinking, Kind

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Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

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Problem, Proportion, Grows

Melina Marchetta (2014). “Looking for Alibrandi: Australian Puffin Classics”, p.146, Penguin UK

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Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.

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Simple, Thinking, Hands

Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.182, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

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Life, Years, Challenges

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.227, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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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.

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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.

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Want, Littles, Way

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

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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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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