Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 3

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• Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

  Melina Marchetta

  Missing, Feels, Like Something

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

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• What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now?" he asks, digging his hands into the pockets of his khaki pants, grinning right back at me. "I think it would cause a riot." "Well, you know me," he says, lowering his head towards me. "Causing a riot is what I do best." Santangelo approaches before Griggs gets any closer and pulls him away. "Are you guys insane?" he says, irritated. "It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians," I say, throwing his own words back at him.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Hands, Ideas

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• I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

  Melina Marchetta

  Party, Thinking, Vote

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women.

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  Kissing, Men, Bed

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• All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphatically. "That's the language I share with them.

  Melina Marchetta

  Children, Warrior, Law

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.162, Penguin UK

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• You just have to belong. Long to be.

  Melina Marchetta

  Long

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!

  Melina Marchetta

  Tired, People, Sick

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• Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

  Melina Marchetta

  Years, Waiting, Months

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1163, Penguin UK

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• It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.

  Melina Marchetta

  Morning, Passion, Sleep

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.164, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.

  Melina Marchetta

  Rip, Thinking, Would Be

  "Froi of the Exiles". Book by Melina Marchetta, 2011.

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• She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Hands, Pulse

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.

  Melina Marchetta

  Past, Pieces, May

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

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  Want, Littles, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2014). “Looking for Alibrandi: Australian Puffin Classics”, p.154, Penguin UK

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• The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

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  Girl, Taken, Eye

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• 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.

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  Running, Love You, People

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

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• He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.

  Melina Marchetta

  Good Day, Bad Day, Twenties

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• Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mean, Thinking, Return

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• It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

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  Want, Matter, Firsts

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.163, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?" "I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues. "Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look. "Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Names, Giving

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• Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what kind of family they are. What word is it that can define them? What would they call his family in the textbooks? Broken? He comes from a broken home. The Mackees can't be put back together again. There are too many pieces of them missing.

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  Home, Together Again, Voice

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• Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who will listen. God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true. The first name shatters him. The second makes his head spin.

  Melina Marchetta

  Baby, Jesus, Names

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• Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

  Melina Marchetta

  Memories, Way, Should

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• he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dream, Path, Ache

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• How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

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  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.235, Penguin UK

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• I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

  Melina Marchetta

  Two, Passionate, Two Things

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.290, ReadHowYouWant.com

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