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41 " Once, last year, I started going through my sins and Father Stephen said, "Oh, it's you, Josie." Can you believe it? He recognised me by my sins. I'm so boring that I can't even change my sins from term to term. "
― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi
42 " I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year Twelve was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience. "
43 " I'm in love. I don't want to be in love with Jacob Coote. I want to be in love with John Barton and have people look upon me with envy, but John doesn't make me feel like this. I'm beginning to realise that things don't turn out the way you want them to.and sometimes, when they don't, they can turn out just a little bit better. "
44 " I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better. "
45 " You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying. "
46 " 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. "
47 " To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all. "
48 " Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives. "
49 " You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves. "
50 " I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated. "
51 " You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming. "
52 " It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die. "
53 " I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all. "
54 " I ignore Jaco Coote when I see him. I'm not sure why. It's not as if I dislike him or anything. I think I ignore him because if I look at him I might find that he's looking at me, and I'm not sure where that would lead us. "
55 " I was wrong, I thought to myself. I honestly believed it. Not because Sister Louise told me or because she made me believe I was. I knew deep down that I was wrong and I think that my emancipation began at that moment. "
56 " Simple dreams are the hardest to come true. "
57 " If I could be anything but what I am, I would be tomorrow. If I could be what my father wants me to be, then maybe I could stay for that, too. If I could be what you want me to be, I’d want to stay. But I am what I am, and all I want is freedom. "
58 " 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. "
59 " to be that smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there’s no room for dreaming. "
60 " can you see what I see?No I don't think you can I can see images of nothing and I attempt to make that nothingness into something As hard as I try there is still nothing and that nothing is meaningless I am somewhere else now, outsideI am surrounded by people and theblueness of the skybut still nothing has changedEverything remains the sameI am still alone "