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61 " I watch her walk up the road, and then she disappears and my anxiety returns, just for a split second. And somehow I find myself running, and by the time I catch up to her, the bus has pulled up.“Justine?”She looks at me, surprised, as the bus doors open.I’m trying to catch my breath because I don’t have much time.“You’re my rock.”The bus driver is telling her to get on the bus, but she’s just standing there, an I-think-I’m-going-to-cry look on her face. But I grin at her and she grins back. "
― Melina Marchetta , Saving Francesca
62 " It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there. "
63 " I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood. "
64 " It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore. "
65 " She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it. "
66 " You blame me for this, don't you?" he says."I don't need to. You're doing a better job. "
67 " You don't use words like 'kind of interested' to describe how I feel about you. "
68 " And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore.""I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun. "
69 " I don't care what my friends think.""You care what they'l do when they remember thatyou're the one with personality. "
70 " They either don't get it or don't want to. Maybe I'm just not selling it well. "
71 " And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it. "
72 " You know what we call you? Bitch Spice, Burtch Spice, Slut Spice and Stupid Spice.'Thomas Mackee says this "
73 " We have to make a human pyramid displaying the foundations of the Catholic Church and the most frightening aspect, according to Brother Louis, is that Thomas Mackee is holding up the pyramid which makes the whole future of the church incredibly shaky. "
74 " Tara's already been called a lesbian because that's how the Sebastian boys deal with any girl who has an opinion. "
75 " But that’s it. When I think of you, I think of future stuff. I think of this is it and I’m not supposed to think this is it at my age. I don’t look at you and think nice. I look at you and think, oh my God, I want to hold her and never let her go. I think, sex—right here, right now— "
76 " 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. "
77 " So much hate and depression is making me feel sick, although that could also be attributed to the Pringles that I sandwiched between two Oreos. "
78 " My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you’ll sense there’s an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life. "
79 " I look around for the counter that sells my scent, but I'm so petrified that if I spray it in the air, nothing will come out. And then Mia's scent seems to fade away and everything else fades away with it and I know that all I have to do to recapture it is press the spray button again. "
80 " I just want to wake up in the morning and for the light to be on, and I want to stop feeling like a success just because I can eat my toast and I want to be able to brush my teeth without throwing up and then when I get through all of that, I want to work at getting that look out of your eyes. That look of fear that I put there and I hate myself for that. "