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I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

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Letting Go, Tonight, Want

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You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.

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Dumb, Dumb Things, Looks

Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.160, Penguin UK

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Because being so dependent on people scares me.

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People, Scare, Dependent

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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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Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

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Echoes, Voice, Gorges

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You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.

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Fire, Fruitcake, Homicidal

Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.150, Penguin UK

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Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

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Heart, Rest Of Your Life, Firsts

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Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs

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School, Holiday, Kyoto

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Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.” "Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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Boys, Would Be, Too Much

Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.127, Penguin UK

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Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his mother. Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way. "You've just made our hit list," he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.

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Mother, Car, Pockets

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Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protector and guide for as long as he lived. Lucian vowed he would be the light whom they traveled toward in times of need.

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Light, Long, House

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Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine.

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Song, Heart, Comforting

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

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Men, Soul, Blind

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A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.

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Home, Long, Jellicoe Road

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People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.

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Men, People, Despair

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Hold my hand because I might disappear.

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Hands, Might, Disappear

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Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

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Fighting, Looks, Fierce

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That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

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Want Something, Giving, Return

Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.26, Harper Collins

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A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.

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World, Entrances, Underestimated

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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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I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

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Uncles, Laughing, Wish

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I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.

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Lying, Smoking, Bed

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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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You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and stands up. 'You chicks give me the shits,' he says. 'You, on the other hand, brighten up our day,' I tell him. 'We all regard you as a god.

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Hands, Giving, Judging

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

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Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.

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Night, Years, Ice

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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