Melina Marchetta quotes - page 7

When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please? (Melina Marchetta)
Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on. View quote
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Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from here. I had to sleep at the Santangelo penitentiary for pre-pubescent girls. View quote
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Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does. View quote
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I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are. View quote
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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. View quote
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Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?' 'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said. View quote
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And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it. View quote
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City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. View quote
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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. View quote
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Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices. (Melina Marchetta)
This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs. View quote
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I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone. View quote
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What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper. View quote
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I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood. View quote
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If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I'd spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That's the difference between you and me, Tom. I'd go back to the moment it all fell apart and I'd start there. View quote
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We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it. View quote
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They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to me when someone asks them who is in charge. View quote
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...what was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us," Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her and there's a lot of beaming happening. View quote
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She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it's to tell her that something bad has happened. View quote
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I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them. (Melina Marchetta)
I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward. View quote
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You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up. View quote
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I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to. View quote
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Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am? View quote
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