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1. "Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people." ~ Melina Marchetta

2. "Brothers always. Balthazar is with us too. We make this work,' Finnikin said fiercely. 'We bring peace to these kingdoms. We deserve it. Our women do. All of us have lost too much, Froi. We've lost the joy of being children. Let's not take that from Jasmina and Tariq and those who come after them" ~ Melina Marchetta

3. "No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke" ~ Melina Marchetta

4. "Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is." ~ Melina Marchetta

5. "It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do." ~ Melina Marchetta

6. "Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive." ~ Melina Marchetta

7. "Finnikin waited, thinking of all the things he had to tell her.That perhaps he was the resurdus of Seranonna's prophecy, the one to break the spell at the main gate. And that she, Evanjalin, was the light of his sometimes very dark heart who would lead him.Then he heard the crunch of footsteps and she was there and he opened his coat and wrapped her inside, holding her tight until the beat of their hearts slowed to the same pace and her lips were against the base of his throat." ~ Melina Marchetta

8. "She rubbed it onto his hands one day in Year Eleven, feeling the texture of his fingertips, callused by the strings of his guitar, and his palms, rough from woodwork. ("Productive, despite your lazy streak," she had said, inspecting them.)" ~ Melina Marchetta

9. "Never,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for." ~ Melina Marchetta

10. "I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am." ~ Melina Marchetta

11. "Before I knew what was happening he was pulled away from me and I wondered for a second where Anna had got such strength from. But it wasn't Anna who was bashing Greg Sim's face on the ground. It was Jacob Coote." ~ Melina Marchetta

12. "But Trevanion would not listen. "I travel south," he said, his voice heavy. "And I will do all I can, Finnikin, to convince you to travel with me rather than take a path that may destroy you.""If you travel south, I am already destroyed," Finnikin said." ~ Melina Marchetta

13. "And we all end up where we started" ~ Melina Marchetta

14. "I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food." ~ Melina Marchetta

15. "Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?"He loved the flush that appeared on her face, and there was an intake of breath from the girls. "Aldron," she said clearing her throat,"if he agrees to become king, I'm going to let him kiss me. Please don't stop him."Aldron thought for a moment and sighed, holding up his hand. "Wait there and do not move," he ordered Finnikin, before calling out to one of the other guards who stood on the platform. "Ask Perri if he's allowed to touch her if he's agreed to be king." ~ Melina Marchetta

16. "I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are." ~ Melina Marchetta

17. "And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you." ~ Melina Marchetta

18. "As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine." ~ Melina Marchetta

19. "Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.''Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine." ~ Melina Marchetta

20. "This one time in Year Eight we had to write on butcher's paper how we'd like people to see us. Remember ours? We were like, ‘We don't want people to see us as leaders or heroes or anything out of the ordinary. We just want them to see us as on their level.' ""But Justine Kalinsky gets up there, on her own, poor thing . And she says, ‘I'd like people to see me as their Rock.' ""And we killed ourselves laughing.""Poor thing.""What did she mean?" the Pius girl asks."Who knows." ~ Melina Marchetta

21. "I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope." ~ Melina Marchetta

22. "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

23. "Come here," she says."No, you come here.""I said it first.""Rock paper scissors.""No. Because you'll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then you'll win."Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first." ~ Melina Marchetta

24. "Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice." ~ Melina Marchetta

25. "You seem to have a problem with me," he says in typical Griggs fashion.I can tell he regrets saying it when he is treated to one of Hannah's long cold gazes."I think it will be a while before I forgive the trip to Sydney," she says flatly."Fair enough. I think it will be a while before I forgive you for what you put her through over the past six weeks."I watch them both and for the first time it occurs to me that I'm no longer flying solo and that I have no intention of pretending that I am. I have an aunt and I have a Griggs and this is what it's like to have connections with people."Do you know what?" I ask both of them. "If you don't build a bridge and get over it, I'll never forgive either of you." ~ Melina Marchetta

26. "When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced." ~ Melina Marchetta

27. "I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if I just disappear from his life without a word. It was okay for him to keep in contact with Georgie and my mum, but not once did he pick up the phone or write to me. Like I was fucking nothing to him. Like I'm nothing to no one." ~ Melina Marchetta

28. "His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god, but because I've never really heard what a sex god sounds like, I can't verify that." ~ Melina Marchetta

29. "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 said, his voice still gentle."Yes, Father.""Shout it out louder, my love. Shout it out louder." ~ Melina Marchetta

30. "I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking." ~ Melina Marchetta

31. "Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine." ~ Melina Marchetta

32. "One day" came.Because finally I understood." ~ Melina Marchetta

33. "They always prided themselves on looking youthful. "Forty's the new thirty," they'd joke.Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred." ~ Melina Marchetta

34. "I met you at the cornerstone on the highway to bedlam./Walked with you to the pinnacle, along that ledge to hell,/Traveled along the passageway of all things aching,/But would crawl with you if you wanted me to/On the steeple point to hope./So we can tip the stars and hold the moon,/Graze the sun, but make it soon." ~ Melina Marchetta

35. "These guys fart a lot as well. I'm not saying that girls don't. We just aren't as passionate about them. The smell is sometimes overwhelming and I want to gag. They don't just limit these attacks to the classroom-they can come at you from anywhere around the school. The corridor, the stairwell, the canteen line. There's one area we call Fart Corridor because it belongs to the Year Eights and Nines, who are the biggest perpetrators. They make no apologies and feel no embarrassment. If a girl did one at St. Stella's she'd be an outcast for the rest of her natural life. Here, it's a badge of honor." ~ Melina Marchetta

36. "Who do you hang out with?" Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid." ~ Melina Marchetta

37. "No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing." ~ Melina Marchetta

38. "I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you."He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone." ~ Melina Marchetta

39. "And secondly, losing your virginity doesn't make you a slut. I slept with your father when I was your age. . . ''Mia,' my father roared from the other room.'What? So we're going to lie to her now,?' she shouted back.He walked in. 'What if your mother finds out? Or my mother?''Robert, it was twenty years ago. I don't think there's much they can do.'He looked at me, pointing a finger. 'No sex for you.' He used the Soup Nazi's accent from Seinfeld." ~ Melina Marchetta

40. "Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home.Hannah, however, did the unforgivable.She deserted me in our own backyard." ~ Melina Marchetta

41. "No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable." ~ Melina Marchetta

42. "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

43. "According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice." ~ Melina Marchetta

44. "Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories." ~ Melina Marchetta

45. "But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it.And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it." ~ Melina Marchetta

46. "A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is." ~ Melina Marchetta

47. "I stand up and walk towards her because my days of waiting for more are over. If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it." ~ Melina Marchetta

48. "So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?""Men's business. Bit confidential," Griggs says patronisingly."Wow, wish I were you," Ben says, shaking his head with mock regret. "All I'll be doing tonight is hanging out in Taylor's bedroom, lying on her bed, sharing my earphones with her, hoping she won't hog all the room because it's such a tiny space." ~ Melina Marchetta

49. "Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage." ~ Melina Marchetta

50. "Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there." ~ Melina Marchetta

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