Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 14

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• Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.

  Melina Marchetta

  Grief, Silence, Soul

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• And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

  Melina Marchetta

  Forgiving, Moments, Mets

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• This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Years, Age

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• We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

  Melina Marchetta

  Rocks, Paper, Scissors

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him. "I love that word filthy. I love the way you force it out of your mouth like it's some kind of vermin you want to get rid of." "You've had vermin in your mouth?" "You're mean in that way, you know. You don't let anyone get away with pathetic analogies.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mean, Trying, Analogies

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Age, Fourteen

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• The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered and he looks a bit crestfallen when I say no. "It's because they don't have coverage out here," Griggs tells him. "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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Numbers, Nerd

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• So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. He nods. “My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it’s turning me on.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Thinking, Ideas

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• Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space. Jonah Griggs is my second reminder to never ever trust another human being. My mother was first.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Reality, Names

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• If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

  Melina Marchetta

  Savages, Weapons, Existence

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• One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

  Melina Marchetta

  Indulge In, Return, Left Behind

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• Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.

  Melina Marchetta

  War, Mistake, Voice

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• I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

  Melina Marchetta

  Tree, Forever, Canopy

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• Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Names, Middle

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• I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

  Melina Marchetta

  Three, Seven, Forty

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• We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock." "Cows?" Anson Choi asks, covering his nose. "Pigs, too. And horses. Great for growing tomatoes. The Cadets are wanna-be soldiers. City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. "I'm going to throw up," one of the guys says. "Don't feel too bad," I explain. "Some of our lot did while they were laying out this stuff. Actually, right there where you're standing.

  Melina Marchetta

  Horse, Fighting, College

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