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Girl Quotes by Melina Marchetta

18 Girl quotes by Melina Marchetta

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Melina Marchetta’s take on girlhood blends emotional honesty with a touch of lyrical warmth. Across eighteen snippets you’ll sense her knack for portraying youthful yearning, resilience, and the quiet strength that defines many of her characters.

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Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name,

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Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

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I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the…

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I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look…

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For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other…

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Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from…

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It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one…

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It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi…

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What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on…

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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…

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The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum…

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Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?" He loved the flush that appeared on…

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Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got…

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I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and…

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For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image…

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My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but…

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We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told…

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It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave…

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I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett.…

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“When I saw "Ulysses" on Georgie's bedside table and Tom Finch's name written on it in a scrawl so like my old man's, I…

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“Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part…

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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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You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than…

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Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because…

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See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

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We don't even love each other. I do a bit, you know. You do what a bit? You know. Like you...whatever...love you a bit.…

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I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

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