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Looking for Alibrandi
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"Looking for Alibrandi" Quotes

A teenage girl navigates family, love, and identity in this coming-of-age novel set in Sydney, Australia.

Quotes

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

lifechallenge

I can't leave the world as it is. I have to add at least the tiniest bit to it.

Melina Marchetta

impactchange

The point is, if you want to go somewhere, it's best to find out where you are before you start.

Melina Marchetta

directionawareness

You'll always be looking for that word, and you'll never find it, but you won't stop looking for it. That is the point.

Melina Marchetta

searchpersistence

Words have the power to change us.

Melina Marchetta

impactchange

When you want to hide from the world, the world will seem to find you.

Melina Marchetta

escapereality

I'm a believer in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Melina Marchetta

imaginationbelief

Listen, say what you like, but I don't think it's nice to talk about people behind their backs.

Melina Marchetta

gossiprespect

The great mystery of life is that it goes on.

Melina Marchetta

lifemystery

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

Melina Marchetta

uncertaintyanxiety