Top 16 Melvin Burgess Quotes
#1. The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.
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#2. Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.
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#3. He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.
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#4. It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad
It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
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#5. People are always talking about love like it's something everyday. People say they love their parents, but what does that mean?
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#6. If it's a choice between being shat on and pissed on and used and being a bastard, I'll choose being a bastard any time.
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#8. Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.
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#10. I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.
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#11. Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.
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#12. That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.
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#13. She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.
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#14. The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.
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#15. She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are
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#16. I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.
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