Top 100 Melina Marchetta Quotes
#1. But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
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#2. They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his hand. "Buy yourself some chocolates, Tom."
It's what she'd say to him as a kid with a twenty cent coin.
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#3. But then I catch Grigg's eye and he looks at me in a way that tells me exactly what he's feeling and I love that look. Suddenly I want to yell out to everyone, It's a game, these territory wars. They loved eachother.
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#4. Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.
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#5. Guilt is the greatest monster. Remorse, a killer. But the worst are the memories. Yet sometimes, they are the only things that keep our people alive.
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#6. As Froi crossed this icy tomb, it occurred to him that he might never see Lord August and Lady Abian again. That he had never told them the truth. Finn and Isaboe had taught him to love, but the village of Sayles had taught him to belong.
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#7. So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid."
"Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot."
"Thanks!
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#8. When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
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#9. Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protector and guide for as long as he lived. Lucian vowed he would be the light whom they traveled toward in times of need.
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#10. It's shit punk.[..] That doesn't mean I think punk is shit [...] it means that when someone plays unk ina shit-like manner, it's excruciating. So either find yourself yourself a good punk band or move on, Tom. Because it kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit gifted.
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#11. He wanted to be all poetic, but in an instant he forgot Joe's poem about Japan except the part about 'you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,' and a new sound entered his life ...
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#12. Blood!" Froi said, horrified. "Loins? Same loins you stick
"
"Froi!" Trevanion snapped.
"Flowing at times like a gutted pig," Evanjalin said.
"Evanjalin!
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#14. So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!
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#15. Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?
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#17. But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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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#20. If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more.
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#21. But of course the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another
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#22. Phaedra shook her head. If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.
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#23. If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.
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#24. It's kind of like a grief, and it's not a puzzle that you're supposed to work out on your own,
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#26. Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.
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#27. 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.
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#28. It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers.
Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.
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#29. I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless.
Like I used to be.
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#30. He came third in the state for woodwork,"
Francesca explains. "We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
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#32. 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.
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#33. I look around for the counter that sells my scent, but I'm so petrified that if I spray it in the air, nothing will come out. And then Mia's scent seems to fade away and everything else fades away with it and I know that all I have to do to recapture it is press the spray button again.
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#34. In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.
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#35. Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
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#36. The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
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#37. A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.
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#38. What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly.
"Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.
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#39. There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
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#40. I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.
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#41. Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?
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#44. Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you." And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.
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#45. We stay like that for a while. No one tries to analyze it or offer solutions. No one interrupts. Sometimes, momentarily, I'm embarrassed by the whole disclosure, but I realize that I trust these people and I don't know how or when that happened.
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#46. We'll kill each other, Priestling."
"I'll win most arguments, but you'll get used to it.
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#47. Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.
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#48. Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.
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#49. When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.
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#50. An arm was instantly around his neck. A dagger to his throat. A savage growl in his ear. Sagra. How he missed her.
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#51. Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.
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#52. We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.
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#53. Since when do you look at the side of wonder?"
"I'm trying very hard. It's irritating me, but I'm not giving up. I try to think of a wondrous thought every day when I wake, if you'd really like to know."
"Yes, it's very annoying, but slightly contagious.
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#54. Before I can finish, he turns away and sits down, his back to me, as if I was never there. I stare at the back of his head. There's something about it that makes me want to commit a violent act with a blunt instrument.
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#55. And then he got all religious on her. Very quickly.
- The Piper's Son
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#56. It's not that I miss my mother. It's just that I miss the idea of what one would be.
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#58. I have an aunt and I have a Griggs and this is what it's like to have connections with people.
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#59. He has a strange face. It's all sharpness and angles and incredibly fair skin. But then he's got this thatch of black hair that's such a contrast. It's like two cultures had a massive fight over his face and neither won.
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#60. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive.
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#61. Before I knew what was happening he was pulled away from me and I wondered for a second where Anna had got such strength from. But it wasn't Anna who was bashing Greg Sim's face on the ground. It was Jacob Coote.
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#62. Hannah's house has been unfinished ever since I can remember. Deep down I think that's always been a comfort to me, because people don't leave unfinished houses.
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#63. I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods.
Well then you'll never trust the opposite sex again.
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#64. What do you want from me? he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
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#65. Little people irritate me. I felt like this monstrous giant alongside them.
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#66. ..I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around.
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#67. I'm comparing you to ... rugby and ... my voice breaking ... and everything I love but don't understand." "To the failures in your life." "No. I'm comparing you to all the things I love doing best and I just can't have when I want them.
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#68. The gods whispered to you once, Finnikin. And you listened. But they are proud and refuse to speak to those who do not believe that there is something out there mightier than the minds and intellect of mortals.
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#69. You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.
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#72. Sometimes ... sometimes keeping alive is too tiring," she whispered, wringing her hands. Before he knew what he was doing, he pressed his lips against her brow. "Don't ever say that. Ever.
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#73. I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.
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#74. Does it help?" he asks. "The e-mailing."
She nods. "A tiny bit. It's strange. You're writing a letter to someone who's never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.
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#75. But Froi looked around with wonder.
As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.
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#76. I can't and won't write without hope.
I'd rather never write again.
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#77. Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. ( ... ) What you can't understand, you destroy.
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#78. I won't push you for it anymore, okay. We'll stick to clever conversation.
A bit of this and that won't hurt.
Yeah, it won't hurt you. It'll drive me bloody crazy.
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#79. You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.
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#80. She told him that from this angle the treetops looked like cauliflower and she had once heard them beckon her to jump, promising her that if she did, they'd bounce her back in the air again. Some days, like today, he was petrified she'd listen to them.
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#81. The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.
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#82. Tom made her watch all three movies one afternoon," Justine says. "I wonder if Tara's ever forgiven you."
The phone beeps again and she reads, "I want those ten hours of my life back.
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#83. It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.
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#84. A dead look in her eye, a thin grimace to her lips, a sick pallor to her skin that spoke of despair
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#85. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance. It robbed Phaedra of her breath.
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#86. And he saw it in her eyes. Still. The belief that there could be someone other than herself. You, he wanted to shout. You. No one but you. Stupid, stupid girl.
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#87. Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them in the face with it until it could be avoided no longer.
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#88. When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please?
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#89. 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.
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#90. I'm frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing's there.
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#91. I've been in that void,' she told me once. 'Don't you ever give in to it
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#92. He held up the ring and the light from the rising sun caught the stone and Froi thought he had never seen anything so beautiful. It was the ring that had given him a life he could never have imagined. It was all things magnificent about Lumatere.
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#93. I'm just sick of all the misery, my absolute lack of control over everything.
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#94. God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.
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#95. Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.
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#96. It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
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#97. I ignore Jaco Coote when I see him. I'm not sure why. It's not as if I dislike him or anything. I think I ignore him because if I look at him I might find that he's looking at me, and I'm not sure where that would lead us.
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#98. 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. So I dance.
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#99. It was that he knew that voice, had dreamed it over and over again in a lifetime of rot and misery, and Froi wanted to weep. For he knew he would break his bond to his queen not just with his body but also with his heart.
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#100. 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.
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