It's not that I like you least [...] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you. Melina Marchetta More Quotes by Melina Marchetta More Quotes From Melina Marchetta Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he asks quietly. He hears her breathing so close to his ear. 'Yes.' 'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby. Melina Marchetta stupid sleep baby You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and stands up. 'You chicks give me the shits,' he says. 'You, on the other hand, brighten up our day,' I tell him. 'We all regard you as a god. Melina Marchetta judging giving hands One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind. Melina Marchetta left-behind indulge-in return If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. Melina Marchetta savages existence weapons The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered and he looks a bit crestfallen when I say no. "It's because they don't have coverage out here," Griggs tells him. "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. Melina Marchetta nerd heart numbers 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. Melina Marchetta jellicoe-road home long 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. Melina Marchetta uncles wish laughing Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days. Melina Marchetta fierce fighting looks Because being so dependent on people scares me. Melina Marchetta dependent scare people It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do. Melina Marchetta humanity can-do believe He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been scum who live by their own rules. No one has ever taught him otherwise.” “Am I to forgive?” she said, her voice shaking with anger. “No,” he said sadly. “Pity him. Or give him new rules. Or put him down like a wild animal before he becomes a monster who destroys everything he encounters. Melina Marchetta voice animal teacher You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them? Melina Marchetta honor writing past My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against the trunk of the tree. "And," he said with another resounding thump, "although I'm very familiar with that part of the female body, I take offense at being labeled one. Melina Marchetta mother tree boys I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do. Melina Marchetta desire boys believe Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?" "I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt laying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her." "Oh, too profound, my friend. Much too profound. Melina Marchetta queens sleep morning He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away. Melina Marchetta good-day bad-day twenties You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves. Melina Marchetta feels people thinking What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old? Melina Marchetta crush girl kids 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. Melina Marchetta deep-down grateful want 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. Melina Marchetta buttons block two
