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1 " And I suddenly feel like Pinocchio after he’s been swallowed; dome roof with curved steel beams like a whale’s ribs, the moon and Milky Way right there at the yawning shutter of its mouth. "
― Danielle Binks , Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology
2 " Lately I’d been wondering what piece Mum took with her when she died, and I’d been thinking about the Winnie I would have been if she hadn’t. "
― Danielle Binks , The Year the Maps Changed
3 " Maps lie.Or at least, they don’t always tell the truth.They’re like us humans that way. "
4 " I was eleven when everything started and twelve by the end. But that’s another way that maps don’t tell the whole truth – because it felt like the distance I travelled was a lot further than that. "
5 " my mum used to say that you had two hands:one to help yourself,and one t help others". then she sighed "though sometimes i wonder if the hand we use to help others moves a bit slower and with less purpose than the one we use to help ourselves". "
6 " We’re underground here — almost the whole colony is underground, safely shielded because radiation is not your friend. Every angle is calculated, every line efficient. I think my parents wish they could plan me just as carefully, no part of me without a purpose, no part of me wasted. Maximum return for their efforts. "
7 " She has dirt on me before I’m dirty. "
8 " Yes,’ I say. ‘It’s my first actual day of high school ever. I moved from the country. I was home-schooled via distance ed before now.’‘Incredible.’ He shakes my free hand, while lying in that peculiar position. ‘You’ve managed to evade formal education for a signifcant period of your life. Congratulations and well done.’‘Are you taking the piss?’‘Good God, no. "
9 " The first day she rocked up to school she was wearing a massive brown rosary, hanging around her neck outside her school uniform jumper with a swinging cross at the bottom. Her dad probably made her wear it. “Hey yo, pimping for Christ!” I called out, and she turned as red as the sacred heart, bless. "
10 " I don’t know if I can put it into words just yet, this feeling like something’s ending and I have to be close to it. "
11 " Books are family. Books are community. "
12 " Anika had the door halfway closed, but she paused at my question.‘My mum used to say that you have two hands: one to help yourself, and one to help others. So yes, I think it’s a good thing.’ Then she sighed. ‘Though sometimes I wonder if the hand we use to help others moves a bit slower and with a little less purpose than the one we use to help ourselves.’And with that, she closed the door. "
13 " … Farrell Kafji, who complained loudly that he had landed in the middle of a seventeenth-century field. ‘And fields then are exactly like fields right now!’ he shouted. ‘I could’ve gone down to Forsyth Park if I wanted to see a field! "
14 " We stop at the door. I’m still smiling.‘Well, bye,’ Noah says.‘Don’t call us! We’ll call you!’ I say to Noah. And I shoot the airwith cowboy guns. Noah blinks. "
