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01c. 1965 AD

Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep."What makes you think were friends?""Everything."I hear her yawn."Being enemies with him is better." she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long while.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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02c. 1965 AD

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.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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03c. 1965 AD

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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04c. 1965 AD

In an instant he forgot Joe's poem about Japan except the part about 'you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,' and a new sound entered his life, like when he was a kid and he first heard the sound of horses clip-clopping and he asked his mother in wonder, "What's that sound, because I've never heard it before?

Melina Marchetta / quote

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05c. 1965 AD

I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in."He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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06c. 1965 AD

I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked.'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth.And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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07c. 1965 AD

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.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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08c. 1965 AD

He just watched the way Finnikin’s hands rested on Evanjalin’s neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.

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09c. 1965 AD

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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10c. 1965 AD

As he left Yata’s home that morning, he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams. For a moment he allowed himself to feel regret at the thought of never building a cottage by the river with Trevanion. Or living the life of a simple farmer connected to the earth. Or traveling his kingdom, satisfying the nomad he had become. To be Finnikin of the Rock and the Monts and the River and the Flatlands and the Forest. To be none of those at all.Yet he also knew that to lose her to another man would be a slow torture every day for the rest of his life.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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11c. 1965 AD

But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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12c. 1965 AD

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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13c. 1965 AD

The pages aren't numbered, so I don't know whether I have the beginning or end or whether it's in sequence but these days I'm not really looking for continuity.All I'm after is something that makes sense to me.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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14c. 1965 AD

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.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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15c. 1965 AD

I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him.'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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16c. 1965 AD

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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17c. 1965 AD

I met this boy here who I knew as a kid and his mum left him with a pedophile for two weeks when he was eight years old and I'm presuming you know everything there is to know about Jonah's father, and that my father is dead, and my mother hasn't been around for years, and God knows Jessa's real story. So what I'm saying here, Sergeant, is that we're just a tad low on the reliable adult quota so you have no right to be all self-righteous about what Chaz did and if you're going to go around not talking to him when his only crime was wanting me to have what he has, then I think you're going to turn out to be a bit of a dud and you know something? I'm just a bit over life's little disappointments right now. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Melina Marchetta / quote

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18c. 1965 AD

I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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19c. 1965 AD

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.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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20c. 1965 AD

But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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21c. 1965 AD

I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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22c. 1965 AD

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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23c. 1965 AD

Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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24c. 1965 AD

Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate's mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?' she asks earnestly. I look at Hannah, waiting for the answer. And then she smiles. Webb once said that a Narnie smile was a revelation and, at this moment, I need a revelation. And I get one. 'I wonder,' Hannah says.

Melina Marchetta / quote

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