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Melina Marchetta è una scrittrice australiana.

✵ 25. Marzo 1965  •  Altri nomi מלינה מארג'יטה
Melina Marchetta: 204 citazioni0 Mi piace

Melina Marchetta: Frasi in inglese

“If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

“For she would be Queen of Lumatere.

But he would be king to her.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

“You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on.

I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.”

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Origine: Saving Francesca

“He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That 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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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

“If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

“We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot."
"Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.”

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Melina Marchetta libro Looking for Alibrandi

Origine: Looking for Alibrandi

“We don't even love each other.
I do a bit, you know.
You do what a bit?
You know. Like you… whatever… love you a bit.
I think I kind of love you too.”

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Melina Marchetta libro Looking for Alibrandi

Origine: Looking for Alibrandi

“Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being trusted.”

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Origine: Quintana of Charyn

“I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself… I'll run to be emancipated.”

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Melina Marchetta libro Looking for Alibrandi

Origine: Looking for Alibrandi

“See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

“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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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“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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Melina Marchetta libro Looking for Alibrandi

Origine: Looking for Alibrandi

“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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Origine: The Piper's Son

“I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke.
Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.”

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Origine: The Piper's Son

“Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?”

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Origine: Saving Francesca

“you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

“Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.”

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Origine: Quintana of Charyn

“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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Origine: Quintana of Charyn

“Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.”

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Melina Marchetta

Origine: Froi of the Exiles

“Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (…) What you can't understand, you destroy.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

“Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?
I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.”

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Melina Marchetta libro Looking for Alibrandi

Origine: Looking for Alibrandi

“You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.'

'The mule and I have an agreement.'

'The mule and you have similar traits.”

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Origine: Quintana of Charyn

“But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.”

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Melina Marchetta libro On the Jellicoe Road

Origine: On the Jellicoe Road

“How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Origine: Finnikin of the Rock

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