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Melina Marchetta Inspirational Quotes (182)

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It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.
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The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. Hes aiming for oblivion.
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Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.
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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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This is war, he say quietly. Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.
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See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.
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It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.
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Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.
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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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And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.
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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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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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Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.' And she wept to hear his words.
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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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And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.
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Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.
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I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.
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I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.
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Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs
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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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Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
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Simple dreams are the hardest to come true
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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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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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