On The Jellicoe Road Quotes
"If I was prone to dramatics, I could imagine my sighs would have been heard from the boundaries of the school to the town down below."
"Melodrama plays a special part in the lives of those at the Jellicoe School."
"There is just something about that boy that makes me feel like I belong."
"We never quite get to the end of the song and each time I wake, I remind myself to ask him about those last few bars."
"Hannah, who is too young to be hiding away from the world and too smart to be merely organising weekend passes."
"The question begs to be asked, ‘Why the flashlights?’"
"Somewhere in that hazy world of neither here nor there, I’ll be hanging off that tree."
"According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation."
"If you want us to scare you, Taylor Markham, we’ll scare you."
"For a moment I can hear the pulse of everything out there."
"I remember the look on his face when he pulled up in front of the postman’s van and got out of his car."
"All I know is that there is something not right. It’s in my dreams, it’s inside my heart."
"It’s almost like Jack’s beanstalk and probably one of the highest trees I’ve ever seen on this property."
"She lived in the same street as Jem and Scout Finch."
"We circle the tree over and over again, trying to decipher all the messages."
"I can’t remember hearing was concern in their voices."
"It’s like she never really managed to grab hold of me with a firmness that spoke of never letting go."
"I remember the tremble in my mother’s body when the midwife first placed me in her arms."
"By the second day of the holidays everyone has left the House."
"No one in this town locks their doors, plus we can hotwire."
"I reckon I’d smile really nicely in the photo."
"I don’t want to even think about it right now."
"I have no idea how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it instantly."
"I wish Hannah would come back and tell me off like she used to."
"You look like someone who is going to get a really really high UAI."
"Don’t you dare try to get out of the fact that you were missing your mother and brother."
"I’m not quite sure how his mum finds time to be the mayor of the town as well."
"It’s as if he thinks he’ll see the doubt or the distrust or the questions about his past."
"I feel as if I am a thousand miles away from the turmoil of the past week."
"Because people with that much spirit frighten the hell out of me. They make me want to be a better person when I know it's not possible."
"I have an aunt named Narnie and a mother named Tate."
"It's like he's spent a lifetime censoring himself."
"We're just a tad low on the reliable adult quota."
"I can't explain. She wouldn't even meet Narnie. She told her that you'd be at the 7-Eleven at twelve-fifteen."
"You had a choice. You could have kept away, but you came back."
"I want to die clean for my baby girl, Jude. That's all I want. It's all I have to give her."
"I have an aunt and I have a Griggs and this is what it's like to have connections with people."
"If something happens to him, I have to know that I won't fall apart like Tate did without Webb."
"When you look at him he thinks you're thinking that you'd rather he was Webb or Fitz or Tate. Did you know that?"