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Melina Marchetta On the Jellicoe Road

Quote from Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

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 On the Jellicoe Road

Quote from Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

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 On the Jellicoe Road

Quote from Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

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 On the Jellicoe Road

Quote from Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

I didn’t know you had a girlfriend, Griggs.” Anson Choi feigns surprise. “What’s her name?””I didn’t actually catch her name,” Griggs continues.”Lily,” Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look.”Great to know that I’m in love with a girl with a cool name.””It’s Taylor’s middle name,” Raffaela calls back again.

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Quote from Melina Marchetta, Froi of the Exiles

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

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Melina Marchetta On the Jellicoe Road

Quote from Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

This is the best night of my life,” Raffy says, crying.”Raffy, half our House has burnt down,” I say wearily. “We don’t have a kitchen.””Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?” she asks. “We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets.”Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

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