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Melina Marchetta è una scrittrice australiana.

✵ 25. Marzo 1965  •  Altri nomi מלינה מארג'יטה
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Melina Marchetta: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“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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Origine: Froi of the Exiles

“And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

“I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.”

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Origine: Saving Francesca

“You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist."

"You've made that up.”

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Origine: Saving Francesca

“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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Origine: Saving Francesca

“According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“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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Melina Marchetta libro Looking for Alibrandi

Origine: Looking for Alibrandi

“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”

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Origine: Quintana of Charyn

“The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.”

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Origine: The Piper's Son

“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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Origine: Saving Francesca

“Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.”

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Origine: Froi of the Exiles

“I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.”

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Origine: Saving Francesca

“What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself.

"First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.”

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Origine: Froi of the Exiles

“I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

“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.”

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Origine: Froi of the Exiles

“Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name."
"It's Taylor's middle name”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.”

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Origine: The Piper's Son

“This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence.
That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her.
Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.”

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Origine: Froi of the Exiles

“I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.”

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Melina Marchetta libro Looking for Alibrandi

Origine: Looking for Alibrandi

“You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.”

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Origine: Quintana of Charyn

“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.”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“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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Origine: Froi of the Exiles

“The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified
and vulnerable.”

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Origine: Saving Francesca

“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.”

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Origine: Froi of the Exiles

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