Melina Marchetta quotes - page 6

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out. (Melina Marchetta)
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. View quote
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Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful. View quote
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She misses him more now than when he was away. View quote
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Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better. View quote
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He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. View quote
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We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot. View quote
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I love it when you're demented like this. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. "We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times. (Melina Marchetta)
They always prided themselves on looking youthful. "Forty's the new thirty,” they'd joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred. View quote
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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. View quote
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Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons. View quote
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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. View quote
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But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy. View quote
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How unladylike of you to mention such a thing. View quote
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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. View quote
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I stand up and walk towards her because my days of waiting for more are over. If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it. View quote
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I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference. View quote
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A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is. (Melina Marchetta)
I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son. View quote
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One day" came. Because finally I understood. View quote
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I'm frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going. View quote
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I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail. View quote
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