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It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

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Melina Marchetta Love

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

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Melina Marchetta Family Grief Jellicoe Road Love Melina Marchetta

When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.

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Melina Marchetta Kiss Love

He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can see in him. It's the smile and the pure promise of everything he has to offer. Like he's saying, 'Here I am world, are you ready for so much passion and beauty and goodness and love and every other word that should be in the dictionary under the word life?' Except this boy is dead, and the unnaturalness of it makes me want to pull my hair out with Tate and Narnie and Fitz and Jude's grief all combined. It makes me want to yell at the God that I wish I didn't believe in. For hogging him all to himself. I want to say, 'You greedy God. Give him back. I needed him here.

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Melina Marchetta God Grief Life Sadness

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin.And this was her penance.Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

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Melina Marchetta Life Live Penance Sin

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

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Melina Marchetta Froi Life Rewards Sacrifices Tariq

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

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Melina Marchetta Inspirational

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

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Melina Marchetta Comeback Dialogue Humor Idiots

I can't believe I said it out loud. 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. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.

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Melina Marchetta Truth

Truth is dangerous.

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Melina Marchetta Truth

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

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Melina Marchetta God

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

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Melina Marchetta Romance Saving Francesca Will Trombal

Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.”Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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Melina Marchetta Hope

Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

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Melina Marchetta Hope

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 Good Hope Optimism

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.I counted.It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.

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Melina Marchetta Death

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 Death Tyrants

Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

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Melina Marchetta Angst Death Love

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 Death Grief

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

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Melina Marchetta Death Life

Stani walks in later, glaring at them both.“Bloody bastards. One minute punching each other, next minute reading poetry. What’s wrong with everyone this week?”Tom can tell that

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Melina Marchetta Poetry Punching Stani

Worse still, he doesn’t know how to follow the piper anymore because it’s a path Tom has lost faith in.And the piper knows it. Tom can see it in his father’s eyes now. And the more he stares, the clearer it becomes.

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Melina Marchetta Dominic Faith Piper Thomas

But say he forgets about me or meets someone else or pretends I don't exist.I look at her and then at Trini and Raffy.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 mistakeTeresa looks hopeful.It's not as if men haven't gone to war for dumber reasons Trini adds.

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Melina Marchetta Relationships

Arjuro made a scoffing sound. ‘You think Lumatere will invade because of you? Are you that important?’Froi looked away. ‘Isaboe would invade if you kidnapped a servant, let alone a friend.’‘Isaboe? We’re on first-name terms with the Queen of Lumatere, are we?’ Gargarin asked.Froi found himself bristling. ‘What? Do you think I’m some cutthroat for hire who they found hanging around the palace walls with the words “I wantto kill a Charynite King” tattooed on my arse?

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Melina Marchetta Arse Froi Funny Sarcasm

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

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Melina Marchetta Fear Georgie Worry

Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being tr

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Melina Marchetta Friendship Lovers Trust

Do you want to hang out? At your place or something? Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I'm not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It's bad enough that I'm sharing chocolate brownies swith him. I shake my head. Not today.

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Melina Marchetta Friendship Jimmy Hailler

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 People Stuck Suck

We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and only then will we know true peace.

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Melina Marchetta History Land People Stories

Mercy', Finnikin said, grinning from ear to ear. 'We're going to have a bed full of children and I'll have to holler out to my wife, Hello there! It's been a long time since we last spoke!

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Melina Marchetta Finnikin Humour

So I'm cruising down the road and the object of my thoughts is racing down the street, screaming that her father is a cop. A public servant, very flattering I like a man in uniform He laughed. 'Do you like pizza?' 'What a ridiculous question. I suppose you're going to ask me if I like pasta next?

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Melina Marchetta Humour

It's all rather political, mourning is.

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Melina Marchetta Mourning Politics

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

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Melina Marchetta Flattery Low Self Esteem Seduction Women

Play me something that makes me feel;This soul inside me is made of steel.Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beatingAnd, babe, I need you to make things real.Walk inside me without silence,Kill the past and change the tense.Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring;Take me places that make more sense.

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Melina Marchetta Soar Soul Steel Tense

Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.

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Melina Marchetta Leadership Uniqueness

It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

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Melina Marchetta Act Do Humanity

Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy.

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Melina Marchetta Envy Hatred Idle Men Work

There's a song that I hear at the back of my heart that I feared for so long, when I sensed you were there. And I think of those times when you crept into my dreams and I thought you a threat to curse my sweet king. But it was the boy in your belly that whispered to mine, and even before that, you lived in my spirit. Because I think of those times when I was a child. I prayed to the gods and I begged for a sign. I know that they sent you, despite the blood of all those you loved shed at the hands of my kin. For you were the one who found him in exile and though it took time, you led Froi to his home. And you've sent me this trinket that hardened my heart, because I wanted your words and a sign of true peace. But I’ve opened it now after all these long weeks, and Froi stares at it, speechless, when I hold out my hand. And we see it before us, our spirits shaking. The brilliance of color: the same ruby ring.Oh, you’ve outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring’s a promise of peace, and I’m greedy with hope. It’s a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it’s a gift from a king to a king, I say it’s a sign from a queen to a queen.

~ Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta Forgiveness Isaboe Peace Quintana Quintana Of Charyn

If I had to wish for something, just one thing, it would be that Hannah would never see Tate the way I did. Never see Tate's beautiful, lush hair turn brittle, her skin sallow, her teeth ruined by anything she could get her hands on that would make her forget. That Hannah would never count how many men there were, or how vile humans can be to one another. That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect, and fear, and revulsion, moments I can never go back to because I know they will slow me down for the rest of my life if I let myself remember them for one moment. Tate, who had kept Hannah alive that night, reading her the story of Jem Finch and Mrs. Dubose. And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life.

~ Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta Family Jonah Life Love Pain Taylor To Kill A Mocking Bird

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. He;s aiming for oblivion.

~ Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta Guitar Music Oblivion
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