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-Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn

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francesca spinelli & thomas mackee

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A house for Tate and Narnie and Jude and Fitz and for their families. A home to back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.

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“I’m kind of interested in calculus and ancient Roman warfare. You don’t use words like kind of interested to describe how I feel about you.”

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books i read in 2021: jellicoe road by melina marchetta

I remember asking, “What is the difference between a trip and a journey?” and my father said, “Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,” and that was the last thing he ever said.

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You get in punch ups with aspiring models and you wipe your nose with your sleeve. You’re my kinda chick.

LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, dir. Kate Woods (2000)

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FAVORITE BOOKS ✿ Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

“If I asked you to stay, would you?” I ask later as we’re standing by his car. “Maybe I would, but I don’t think you’d ask me. But I swear to God that I’ll be on the first plane back if you ever need saving from anything…” I shake my head again. “You go and shake your foundations, Will. I think it’s about time I saved myself.”

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FAVORITE BOOKS ✿ The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta

Worse still, he doesn’t know how to follow the piper anymore because it’s a path Tom has lost faith in. And the piper knows it. Tom can see it in his father’s eyes now. And the more he stares, the clearer it becomes.

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jonah griggs & taylor markham + hand holding

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the place on dalhousie is getting produced for tv!

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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. I need Tim Tams and comfort food. I need to find the girls.

Saving Francesca, Melina Marchetta

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READ IN 2019 ↬ Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

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. I put my arm around her and hold her tight and for once there is nothing between us. 

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READ IN 2019 ↬ Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta

“Oh, you’re one of those,” the princess said. “One of what?” “One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?” The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. “Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I’d have lain down and died waiting.”

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Froi of the Exiles: A Novel in Three Parts

The one who reigns must die, At the hands of she born last, And the last will make the first, When the bastard twins are one, And blessed be the newborn King, For Charyn will be barren no more.

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READ IN 2019 ↬ Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta

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

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Finnikin of the Rock: A Novel in Three Parts

Dark will lead the light and our resurdus will rise. And he will hold two hands of the one he pledged to save. And then the gate will fall, but his pain will never cease. His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign.

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READ IN 2019 ↬ Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

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?