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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.

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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.

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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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If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

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Sight, Who We Are, Forget

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Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

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Firsts, Idiot, Resent

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.527, Penguin UK

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In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.

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Life, Mean, Flirting

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Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

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Sacrifice, Rewards, Born

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.644, Penguin UK

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No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.

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Apology, Stories, Rest Of Your Life

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But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

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Hands, Earth, Made

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.340, Penguin UK

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I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

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Voice, Hysteria, Empathy

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.177, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you’ll sense there’s an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.

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Senior, Girl, Mother

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.6, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image he displays. Maybe deep down he is a sensitive guy, who sees us as real people with real issues. I want to say something nice. Some kind of thanks. I stand there, rehearsing it in my mind. "Oh my God," he says, "did you see that girl's tits?" Maybe not today.

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Girl, Real, Nice

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I look around for the counter that sells my scent, but I'm so petrified that if I spray it in the air, nothing will come out. And then Mia's scent seems to fade away and everything else fades away with it and I know that all I have to do to recapture it is press the spray button again.

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Air, Buttons, Looks

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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They either don't get it or don't want to. Maybe I'm just not selling it well.

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Want, Selling, Wells

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.94, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.

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Song, Lakes, Years

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Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?" "I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt laying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her." "Oh, too profound, my friend. Much too profound.

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Morning, Queens, Sleep

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I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said. Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked. 'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth. And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.

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Night, Ice, Ideas

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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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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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Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

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People, World, Satisfaction

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.134, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.

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Romance, Affirmation, Declaration

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She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

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Fear, Believe, Names

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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.

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People, Stuck

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

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