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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

“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 książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: 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 książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Saving Francesca

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

"You've made that up.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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 książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

“… the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Froi of the Exiles

“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 książka Looking for Alibrandi

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Quintana of Charyn

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

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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 książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

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

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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 książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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 książka Looking for Alibrandi

Źródło: Looking for Alibrandi

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

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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 książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Froi of the Exiles