Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 7

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• No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.

  Melina Marchetta

  Country, Feel Better, People

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

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• It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

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  Promise, Chance, Mates

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• How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.

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  Heart, Eye, Seven Days

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.874, Penguin UK

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• And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you that day and you looked at peace with yourself and it made me reconsider everything I had planned to do. Because I thought to myself, you can't do this to her, not after the Hermit thing." "Do what to me? I don't think leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs," I lie. "You being on that platform changed mine.

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  Lying, Eye, Thinking

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• He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was.

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  Men, Should Have, Common Sense

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• It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore.

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  Girl, Home, Thinking

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• Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

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  Listening, Tone, Excuse

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• Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

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  House, Middle East, Want

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.

  Melina Marchetta

  Liking Someone, Stories, Territory

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• He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?" "I don't think you deserve my company but I feel sorry for you so I'll say yes." "God help me," he said, half under his breath.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sorry, Eye, Thinking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.123, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

  Melina Marchetta

  Years, Personality, Doe

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• When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

  Melina Marchetta

  Flattery

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• You've been quiet these past days," Trevanion said. "Are you going to tell me what the...exchange of words was about?" "Who said there was an exchange of words?" Finnikin asked with irritation. "When a woman says 'I hope you fall under your horse' and 'catch your death, then see if I grieve you,'" Perri said, "then there's been an exchange of words." Finnikin glared at him. "In my humble opinion.

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  Horse, Fall, Humble

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• Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

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  Thinking, Today, Sides

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• Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate's mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?' she asks earnestly. I look at Hannah, waiting for the answer. And then she smiles. Webb once said that a Narnie smile was a revelation and, at this moment, I need a revelation. And I get one. 'I wonder,' Hannah says.

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  Dad, Thinking, Waiting

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• It's not that I like you least [...] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.

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  I Like You, Love You, Joy

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• Woman, I’m trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?

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  Fighting, Trying, Attention

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.187, Penguin UK

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• Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?' The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. 'Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I'd have lain down and died waiting.

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  Princess, Waiting, Needs

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• You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.

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  Lonely, Shy, Want

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.40, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

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  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.92, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.

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  Dream, Heart, Saws

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• I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

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  Nice, Bullshit, Say Anything

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• Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

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  Tyrants, Want, Knows

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1206, Penguin UK

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• She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at the lights and will pushes tom's hand out of the way and and shoves it into the correct gear."it wasn't her" he mutters after a moment."sorry?" tom says."she didn't cry""then what?"it's too quiet except for the quiet for the crap engine sounding like a lawn mower."i cried"luca bursts out laughing beside will."yeah, well i did" will says. "And it's not the thing you want to do in front of a bunch on engineers.

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  Sorry, Light, Hands

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• Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

  Melina Marchetta

  Meaning Of Life, Red, Hills

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