Melina Marchetta Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• 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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Running, Love You, People

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

  Melina Marchetta

  Soccer, Mother, Running

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

  Melina Marchetta

  Running, Thinking, One Day

• The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is running toward me, and I can tell by the look on her face that she's found out about the musical, too. I sigh, shaking my head. "I have to give Justine a lesson in holding back," I tell him. "She's just way too enthusiastic". She grabs my arms in excitement. "We're doing Les Mis." I scream hysterically, clutching her as we jump up and down.

  Melina Marchetta

  Running, Eye, Years

• I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.

  Melina Marchetta

  Running, One Day, Ran

• Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.

  Melina Marchetta

  Running, Distance, Wind

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