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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

“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 książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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 książka Looking for Alibrandi

Źródło: 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 książka Looking for Alibrandi

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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 książka Looking for Alibrandi

Źródło: Looking for Alibrandi

“I love it when you're demented like this.”

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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Saving Francesca

“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

Źródło: 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 książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: 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 książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: 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 książka Looking for Alibrandi

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: The Piper's Son

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

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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 książka Looking for Alibrandi

Źródło: 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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Melina Marchetta

Źródło: Quintana of Charyn

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

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Melina Marchetta książka On the Jellicoe Road

Źródło: On the Jellicoe Road

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

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Źródło: Finnikin of the Rock