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21 " It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers.
Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

22 " You're the father of the person who is my life. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

23 " Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

24 " But it was definitely a car trailing me and quickly I prepared myself for a great dash. I began quickening my step and when it stopped alongside me I could stand it no longer.
"My father's a cop and he'll kill you," I screeched without looking.
"No, he's a barrister," I heard Michael Andretti say in a calm voice, "and he'll kill you if you don't get into this car. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

25 " Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

26 " I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

27 " I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

28 " Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down and I'll wake up in a morgue. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

29 " 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 , Looking for Alibrandi

30 " I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

31 " 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.
I think I kind of love you too. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

32 " I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods.
Well then you'll never trust the opposite sex again. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

33 " What is it? A prize or something?
No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

34 " I won't push you for it anymore, okay. We'll stick to clever conversation.
A bit of this and that won't hurt.
Yeah, it won't hurt you. It'll drive me bloody crazy. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

35 " She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

36 " You're good enough, Jacob. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

37 " I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in.
"He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

38 " I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

39 " Bribes over two dollars are tax deductible "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi

40 " She asked me what type of contraceptive I use.
Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy. "

― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi