Quotes by Melina Marchetta

About Melina Marchetta:

Melina Marchetta is an Australian writer and teacher. Melina is best known as the author of novels, Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca and On the Jellicoe Road. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004. For Jellicoe Road she won the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognising the year's best book for young adults. Marchetta holds a name for being one of the more prominent Australian Authors of present time in Young-Adult Fiction.
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He's my father!" she bellowed, pointing to Trevanion. "Vestie!" Beatriss said firmly, stopping to stare up at her. "I'll snip at the tongue if I ever see it in such a way again! Trevanion, speak to her." Vestie hung her head, shamefaced. "Vestie," he...

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He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

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You can't go around feeling too much.

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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 Que...

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I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.

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

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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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You can't go around feeling too much", Captain Travanion had explained watching a moment to ensure the man was indeed dead. "Because if you feel too much, enough to want to kill them so savagely then one day you are going to feel enough to spare thei...

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

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Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

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

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Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

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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 par...

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I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken sp...

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We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.

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There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

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

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She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others.

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

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The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameMelina Marchetta
  • DescriptionAustralian teen writer
  • BornMarch 25, 1965
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksLooking For Alibrandi; Finnikin Of The Rock; On The Jellicoe Road