Melina Marchetta Quotes - Page 8

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• Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.

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  Moments, Let Me

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• Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.

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  Character, Aunt, Thinking

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• Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

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  Believe, World, Way

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• Causing a riot is what I do best.

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  Riot

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• And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

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  Buttons, Adjectives, Nouns

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• It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.

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  Doors, Mexico, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

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  Morning, Enough, Frightened

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• Their bedroom has always been our sanctuary. Sometimes at night we'll end up on their bed just talking. My dad will be snoring and Mia will say, "Turn around, Bobby, you're snoring," and he'll turn around and for a moment it'll be silent. Then he'll erupt into a massive snore and Luca and I will kill ourselves laughing and my dad will wake up and bark, "Get to bed!" and not even a second later he'll be snoring and we'll kill ourselves laughing again and Mia will say, "What is this? Grand Central Station?

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  Dad, Night, Talking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.18, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

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  House, East, Clean

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.

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  Land, Giving, Valleys

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1332, Penguin UK

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• Brothers always. Balthazar is with us too. We make this work,' Finnikin said fiercely. 'We bring peace to these kingdoms. We deserve it. Our women do. All of us have lost too much, Froi. We've lost the joy of being children. Let's not take that from Jasmina and Tariq and those who come after them

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  Brother, Children, Joy

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• Why are you smiling?' Gargarin asked Froi, from across the balconette. 'When you're going to have to learn a lesson in diplomacy today and choose between the gardens of two women?' Froi laughed, his chin resting on Quintana's head, his eyes taking in the joy of his son, despite the ridiculous cap that covered the babe's head. He looked across at Lirah and Arjuro and Rafuel, and then back to Gargarin who was smiling himself, because he knew the answer to his own question. 'Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

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  Eye, Son, Garden

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• You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.

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  Horse, Journey, Agreement

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• Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

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  Cousin, Sheep, Bed

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• Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.

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  Song, Kings, Queens

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• I look at him. "It's odious," he says. "Detention?" I ask, confused. "Huh?" We have no idea what the other is talking about. "What's odious?" I ask. "O.D.S," he says, pointing to his discman and obviously referring to some dropkick band. Like I really care.

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  Confused, Talking, Ideas

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

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  Men, Doe, Stranger

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• And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what that was, and she said, "If you're one of the lucky ones, you'll know it when you see it. You'll understand why the gods have made you suffer. Because that moment's reward will make your knees weak and everything you've suffered in life will pale in comparison.

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  Suffering, Lucky, Knees

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• If she’s out here and not locked up in the barracks, I’ll know,” he said. He took a deep breath and whistled. “You share a whistle?” Trevanion said in disbelief. “Do you have a problem with that?” Finnikin asked. “I have a few whistles,” Lucian murmured. “Very confusing sometimes.” “Whistles are meant for combat,” Trevanion said. “Not wooing women. Women do not understand whistles.

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  Confusing, Problem, Sometimes

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.264, Penguin UK

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• you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.

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  Hands, Alive, Breathe

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.330, Penguin UK

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• I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.

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  Thinking, Hands, Knowing

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• Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you think were friends?" "Everything." I hear her yawn. "Being enemies with him is better." she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long while.

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  Thinking, Light, Long

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• Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.

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  Letting Go, Father, Son

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• The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There’s nothing mysterious about his ways. They’re premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.

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  Impossible Situations, Ideas, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.154, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It’s a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

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  Lazy, Watches, Looks

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