Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 9

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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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Life, Years, Challenges

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

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

  Melina Marchetta

  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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Kissing, Car, Sides

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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 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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Needs, Demand, Want

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

  Melina Marchetta

  Lying

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

  Melina Marchetta

  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.

  Melina Marchetta

  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.

  Melina Marchetta

  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.

  Melina Marchetta

  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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Simple, Thinking, Hands

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Summer, Laughter, Weather

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

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  Thinking, Foundation, Shakes

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

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