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Melina Marchetta – australijska pisarka i nauczycielka.

✵ 25. Marzec 1965  •  Natępne imiona מלינה מארג'יטה
Melina Marchetta: 205 cytatów0 Polubień

Melina Marchetta cytaty

„Szacunek? Nie cierpię tego słowa. Pewnie dlatego że na tym świecie trzeba szanować niewłaściwych ludzi z niewłaściwych powodów.”

Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Alibrandi szuka siebie (1992), tłum. Małgorzata Grabowska

Melina Marchetta: Cytaty po angielsku

“Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.”

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Melina Marchetta książka Looking for Alibrandi

Źródło: Looking for Alibrandi

“There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Froi of the Exiles

“Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Froi of the Exiles

“No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Froi of the Exiles

“Go to hell," he said, but there was a desolate fear in his eyes and I couldn't look away.
"Been there. Trust me. It's so overrated.”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Quintana of Charyn

“You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Źródło: Finnikin of the Rock

“I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless.

Like I used to be.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Saving Francesca

“We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“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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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“I just want it to go back to the way it was."
"It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Saving Francesca

“He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?"
"Nothing" I said,
"Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands."
"Then learn to live without your hands."
"No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger […]”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Quintana of Charyn

“As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“Simple dreams are the hardest to come true”

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Melina Marchetta książka Looking for Alibrandi

Źródło: Looking for Alibrandi

“I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Źródło: Finnikin of the Rock

“When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you." And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.'

'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Froi of the Exiles

“I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there.

"It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch."

I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.”

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: The Piper's Son

“Sometimes… sometimes keeping alive is too tiring," she whispered, wringing her hands. Before he knew what he was doing, he pressed his lips against her brow. "Don't ever say that. Ever.”

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Źródło: Froi of the Exiles

“A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.”

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Źródło: Finnikin of the Rock