Quotes from book

On the Jellicoe Road

“What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.”

“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.”

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

“No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.”

“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".”

“Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name."
"It's Taylor's middle name”

“If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?”

“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.”

“I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.”

“Maybe memories should be left the way they are.”

“Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?"
Did I wonder?
When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know?
Wonder dies.”

“A home to come back to every day of their lives.
Where they would all belong or long to be.
A place 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 […]”

“This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.”

“I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail.
These two are my junk mail.”