Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 9

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• Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what kind of family they are. What word is it that can define them? What would they call his family in the textbooks? Broken? He comes from a broken home. The Mackees can't be put back together again. There are too many pieces of them missing.

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  Home, Together Again, Voice

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• Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who will listen. God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true. The first name shatters him. The second makes his head spin.

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  Baby, Jesus, Names

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• Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

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  Memories, Way, Should

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• he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

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  Dream, Path, Ache

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• How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

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  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.235, Penguin UK

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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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• 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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• My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.

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  Father, Ocean, Journey

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.1, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Heart, Looks, Bottles

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were answered. Go east, I'll lend them west." "We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?

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  Prayer, Children, Voice

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• He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

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  Laughing, Satisfaction, Mines

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.69, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

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  Voice, Soul, Determined

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• What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others. "It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say. "Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through." That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.

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  Couple, Waiting, Looks

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• This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

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  Night, House, Kitchen

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• Hold my hand because I might disappear.

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  Hands, Might, Disappear

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• I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.

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  Dad, Son, Police

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• We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was one of the best days of his life and then he took out his gun. A .22 rifle. And he leaned forward and whispered, "Forgive me, Taylor Markham." Before I could ask how he knew my name and what I was to forgive him for he said, "Take care of my little girl." And then he told me to close my eyes. And I've been frightened to do just that ever since.

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  Girl, Dream, Eye

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• When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance. Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

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  Brother, Years, Alive

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• How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

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  Faces, Forget, Moments

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• When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.

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  Letting Go, Kissing, Hands

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• Guess what?' Fitz said. 'I don't know,' Jude said. 'What? Narnie smiled?' He glanced at her for the first time. 'When you guys see a Narnie smile, it's like a revalation,' Webb said, gathering her towards him. Jude stopped in front of her and, with both hands cupping her face, tried to make a smile. Narnie flinched. 'Leave her alone,' Tate said. 'I need a revelation,' Jude said. 'And you're the only one that can give me one, Narns.

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  Hands, Giving, Guy

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• Sometimes Webb believed that he would never experience a better feeling than when he was looking at her, would never see anything or anybody bursting with more life and spirit. Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage area in his soul. Just in case.

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  Soul, Feelings, Spirit

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