Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 11

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• So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

  Melina Marchetta

  Stupid, Night, Thinking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.

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  Winning, Years, Two

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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.

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  Fall, Thinking, Want

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• I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, "Frankie, you're silly, you're lazy, you're talented, you're passionate, you're restrained, you're blossoming, you're contrary." I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one.

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  Girl, Sweet, Silly

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

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  Dream, Inspiration, Promise

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.229, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

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  Grief, Silence, Majesty

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• I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

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  Scared, States, Yearning

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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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• You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that’s caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you’re gods’ blessed for no other reason, it’s for that.

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  Blessed, Men, Guilt

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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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• 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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• They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

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  Grief, Thirty, Hundred

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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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• 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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• Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

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  Lonely, Dark, Night

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• I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.

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  Enough Time, Enough, Not Enough Time

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• Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.

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  Hatred, Maps, Body

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.482, Penguin UK

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• Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

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  Wells, Toms

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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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• You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

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  Stones, Kingdoms, Able

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• Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.' And she wept to hear his words.

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  Hands, Voice, Body

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• You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming.

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  Dream, Hate, Smart

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.229, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and Siobhan and Francesca use his body so shamelessly he doesn't feel the need to turn his head and press his mouth against their hair.

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  Tired, Hair, Needs

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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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