Top 67 Justine Larbalestier Quotes
#1. I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.
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#2. I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.
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#4. Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.
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#5. Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.
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#6. My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.
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#7. I tell her I don't have a broken heart. It's still beating, the blood still moves around my body; it only aches when I remember to breathe.
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#8. I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.
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#9. Why did you push her ?' Rosa screams again. I realise she's pointing at me.
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#10. Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.
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#11. Her eyelids fluttered. "Francis," she murmured.
"Cathy," he murmured back.
"Heathcliff," muttered Kit, as he set about making sandwiches.
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#12. I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.
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#13. All the male faces in the room turned to me as if they were flowers and I the sun.
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#14. I don't think that now: half of everything is something, not nothing. Lots of somethings
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#15. He didn't mean to corner me, but when you're as tall and wide as he is and I'm as little as I am, merely standing beside me constitutes menacement.
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#16. When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.
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#19. Who's the bigger liar?
Me or them?
Isn't lying about love the worst lie? Isn't that worse than anything I've ever done?
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#20. That was what magic was: greed. Magic wielders didn't wield magic; it wielded them
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#21. One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.
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#22. I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.
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#23. Didn't anyone ask you where your parents are?"
"They asked. Especially about my parents."
"What did you tell them?"
"I said I ate them."
"Jesus, Rosa.
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#24. We are all made of broken glass. The school grinds along on grief and anger.
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#25. My father is a liar and so am I.
But I'm going to stop. I have to stop.
I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions.
That's my promise.
This time I truly mean it.
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#26. In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.
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#27. I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.
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#28. Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.
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#29. I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including sea creatures. It's about an alien invasion that starts in Lagos, Nigeria but, really, that's just the starting point.
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#31. I believe it's incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes.
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#32. So you vampires living forever," I said. "You must need lot of hobbies to keep from going completely mad. My grandma swears by knitting. Do you knit, Francis?"
"I do not," said Francis.
"Ah," I said. "Do you crochet?" This time he didn't bother to answer.
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#33. The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.
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#34. He's a vampire. I added. You know. In case Ty thought he was a really convincing vamposeur.
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#36. I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!
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#37. I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.
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#38. I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia.
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#39. If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!
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#40. Let's examine what prize that is one more time; no more direct sunlight ever again, no more laughter. You get eternity, but you don't have the sense of humor to enjoy it! Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.
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#41. Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.
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#42. I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting.
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#43. My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.
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#44. Leilani smiles. I'm surprised she knows how. For a second i'm certain she's isn't like Rosa
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#46. We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.
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#48. The ruggers followed me all the way to the cafeteria. I felt like the Pied Piper, except that the rats probably weren't offering to share protein-rich snacks with him.
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#49. The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.
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#51. Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.
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#52. You want to pass for a normal person? Don't tiptoe into people's bedrooms at night! Ever!'
'I can be creepy in front of you.'
'No, you can't! You need to go now.'
'I'll go watch the parentals.
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#53. I love that everyone's into sports, that no one even talks about loving it 'cause it's too obvious. It's the air we breathe.
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#54. I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite.
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#55. The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.
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#56. Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky.
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#57. Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.
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#58. Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them.
I am all anger and resentment all the time.
Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.
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#60. A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.
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#61. My experience with My Sister Rosa showed me, once again, that I have a much easier time of it if I sell my novels after I finish them, not before. I'm lucky that I'm in a position where I'm able to do that.
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#62. 'Expect the best, but prepare for the worst.' I'm good at the first part, crap at the second.
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#63. I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.
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#65. I'm frustrated about Cathy. She's torturing herself over this guy, and he's not worth it. I should tell her the truth. I really should."
"Doesn't sound like she'd listen," Kristin said. "There are none so deaf as those listening to 'All by Myself' over and over and over again.
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#66. I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.
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#67. I enjoyed Ready For This, which was created by the people behind Dance Academy and Redfern Now, and really it's what you'd get if you crossed Redfern Now with Dance Academy
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