Josie 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, Looking for Alibrandi

“She asked me what type of contraceptive I use.
Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“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

“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

“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

“I ran over a squirrel once."
Blinking open my eyes, I drew back as far as she'd let me.
"What?"
"I ran over a squirrel the second time I ever drove a car," she repeated. "I also hit a deer. And when I was seventeen, I clipped a cat. Before I left for college, I backed into a dog."
"Gods," I muttered.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Return

“Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“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

“I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Holy Hottie-McHotters!”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Return

“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

“You're good enough, Jacob.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“What in the fuck are you?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Return

“That's right", she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. "You weren't with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror."
"You saw your parents at the best," Mom murmurs, before Dad sweeps her into another kiss.
"Go ahead," Josie calls. "Mate in public. Tonight we won't even mind. You deserve to break a few decency laws.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“It's just one of those things, like some people don't sink when they go in the pool, some know how to throw a ball so it goes toward the person holding the mitt. I have no idea how people do those things; I'm good at schoolwork. That works out well because it frees up my time for my hobbies, like lying on the couch eating M&M's.”
― Rachel Vail, You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

“I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year Twelve was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.”
― melina marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“Shut up.” She put her finger to his lips, and his voice choked off. She said slowly, “I’ve learned I can live without you.”
Kasimir’s heart cracked inside his chest. He’d lost her. She was going to send him away, back into the bleak winter.
“But I’ve also learned,” Josie whispered, “that I don’t want to.” Her brown eyes were suddenly warm, like the sky after a sudden spring storm. “I tried to stop loving you. But once I love someone, I love for life.” Her lips lifted in a trembling smile. “I’m stubborn that way.”
― Jennie Lucas, A Reputation for Revenge

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a match. The two kids both have hand-me-down names of the ill repute." Jesse turned to me. "But actually, I win. You're named after a madam. I'm named after a murderer. So mine's worse.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Yeah, I guess he had a right to be a jerk."
"I guess he had reason to be.”
― Amy Harmon, Running Barefoot

“That's a good hustle," I told him.
"We both got a little hustle, don't we?" He pulled on his jacket. "But I like to think we got more heart.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“It was Jesse. Again. He came by every day and yelled up to my window. I never answered. Tonight my light was on, so he knew I was there. He continued to yell, "Hey, Motor City," louder and louder alternating between high voices, low voices, even singing it.
"Shut up!" someone called from a nearby window.
"Get her to come down, and I'll shut up," he yelled back.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“My life isn't as bad as I make out and sometimes I think it's all in my head, but I can't help it.”
― Melina Marchetta

“I glanced over to where Seth looked like he wanted to bang his head against the wall. “Hey.”

The blond continued to smile, while his friend continued to stare at me.

Seth sighed again. “The one grinning like he’s crazy is Deacon, and the other one is Luke.”

“We’re friends of his—of Seth’s,” Deacon threw in, and Seth did not look like they were friends.

“This is Josie,” Seth continued. “Please don’t be weird and scare her.”

“Be weird?” Deacon rolled those gray eyes. “Ha. Whatever, dude. All you need to know about me is that I’m like a dolphin in a sea of less-smart fish,” he announced, spreading his arms with a flourish.

Luke turned to him slowly as his eyebrows inched up his forehead. “What?”

He shrugged. “Just saying I have a lot in common with dolphins. They’re smart. I’m smart.”

Seth rubbed his hand down his face.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Return