Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 12

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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.

  Melina Marchetta

  People, World, Satisfaction

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

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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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• You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

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  Jobs, Needs, Blame

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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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• 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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• You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

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  Writing, Past, Honor

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?

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  Okay, Halfway

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.111, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been scum who live by their own rules. No one has ever taught him otherwise.” “Am I to forgive?” she said, her voice shaking with anger. “No,” he said sadly. “Pity him. Or give him new rules. Or put him down like a wild animal before he becomes a monster who destroys everything he encounters.

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  Teacher, Animal, Voice

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• It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

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  Believe, Humanity, Can Do

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.123, Penguin UK

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• And we all end up where we started

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  Ends

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.140, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Soccer, Mother, Running

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

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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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• Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you." And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.

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  Prayer, Believe, Said

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

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  Running, Thinking, One Day

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• Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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  Floats

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• ...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

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  Stupid, Men, Mind

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• I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.

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  Brother, Broken Spirit, Bones

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• Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry over and over again, and I figure somewhere down the track we'll work out the right way of doing this but I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being a part of him. Because being a part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

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  Letting Go, Hurt, Sorry

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• For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.

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  Girl, Sadness, Eye

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

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  Cousin, Powerful, Heart

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.465, Penguin UK

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• If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I’d spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That’s the difference between you and me, Tom. I’d go back to the moment it all fell apart and I’d start there.

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  Hurt, Heart, Differences

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• Come here,” she says. “No, you come here.” “I said it first.” “Rock paper scissors.” “No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then you’ll win.” Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first.

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  Winning, Rocks, Hands

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• You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on their face, or a tone in their voice, or a way they walk, that you’ve never ever seen before. Like they’ve kept it hidden. Until their brother dies. Or their son. I remember those days and they were like these strangers and I wanted to say, Who are you people?

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  Brother, Son, Expression

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• He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

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  Tough Times, Proud, Week

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• But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

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  Selfish, Grief, Grieving

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