#jellicoe road

[milf-harrington]

thinking about jellicoe road again. yeah its gonna be an all night thing, yeah it's literally keeping me awake.

[snazz-ie]

btw read on the jellicoe road

[bebisexual]

"these people have history and i crave history." —on the jellicoe road, melina marchetta.

"i am nothing in my soul if not obsessive." —the secret history, donna tartt.

[twicedailyquotes]

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.

Melina Marchetta

On the Jellicoe Road

[avocado-frog]

Happy STS! What is the best novel you've ever read? What did you like about it, from a storytelling perspective? Has it influenced or informed your own approach?

Hi thanks I've got another ask from you from like two weeks ago that I forgot about whoops

On the jellicoe road has had me in an absolute chokehold since December. It took me a while to get into it because it's a little confusing for the first 100 pages, but my English teacher last year gave it to me because I didn't get a book from the library (it's also worth noting that he gave me a copy that did not have the title on the front, and it was scratched out on the spine, so i did not know what the book was called until i looked it up later)

From a storytelling perspective, it follows two storylines, one is the present, the other is about 20 years into the past, and I'm not going to spoil too much of it, but the parts from the past are written by the protagonist's caretaker, and are in third person, while the present bits are in first. It's definitely worth a reread because of the way the two storylines tie up in the end

I don't think it's really influenced much of my own writing, but I do think that my characterization skills have improved because of it

[fiction-quotes]

The three of them are snuggled up together, talking like they haven't seen each other in years. Sometimes I look at the girls in my form, in my very own house, most of them now on the third floor with me, and I realise that I hardly know them. That's what happens when they take you out of the dorms young.

“You're an adult now, Taylor,” they told me. “Like us.”

Back then I thought they were about a hundred years old. But on the third floor you don't giggle in bed with your friends, or tell horror stories or urban myths. You don't swap food that you've hoarded during the day just so you can have a feast and you don't read books under the blankets with flashlights. You don't sing into hairbrushes in the bathroom or paint your nails the colours of the rainbow. For the first time since they made me leader of the community, I realise why I told Hannah I was thinking of leaving. It's fear. Not of having to negotiate territory, fight a war and make sure we come out of it with more land than when we started. I can do that blindfolded.

It's this that scares me.

My seniors have left the House.

I'm in charge of fifty kids who don't give a shit about the territory wars. They just want to be looked after.

And I have no idea how.

  —  On the Jellicoe Road (Melina Marchetta)

[89words]

When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don’t know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don’t know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.

Melina Marchetta - 'On the Jellicoe Road'

[pvrrhadve]

me: i'm not drinking tonight

me 3 hours later: i should reread on the jellicoe road

[ahurumustdie]

THEOOOOOOOOOO!!! it is your bday in your timezone!!!!!!! and in mine now!!! ILYYYYY hope you're doing well and that you're vibing and having SUCH A GOOD BIRTHDAY bc it's what you deserve <333 you deserve all good things and that is just a Fact of Life <333 n e ways! here are some cakes for you <333

(road for "jellicoe road", steve harrington for steve harrington, library for "nobodies hero", and werewolf for that werewolf poem you wrote <3)

COREY!!!! I LOVE YOU THANK YOU FOR THE CAKES <333

[myfathersdaughter1]

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, ‘What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?’ and my father said, ‘Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,’ and that was the last thing he ever said.”

― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

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(via paige myfathersdaughter1)

[roobylavender]

i was looking at a post you made a while ago about quotes you associate with bruce and this one of the ones that hit me in particular but i couldn’t find where it was from? i searched but nothing under the title came up. if i had to guess, its something hannah wrote from jellicoe road? ive never read any of the authors work but ive been wanting to:

“i’ve listened to people in the media say that nothing beats the love between a mother and the child she births. i’d have to challenge that. nothing beats it, but something equals it. because i feel a deep love at my heart’s core for this child. i truly believe we were meant to be.”

it is a melina marchetta quote but it's from an essay she wrote for a magazine where she talked about how special her experience has been with adoption! thankfully i still have the screenshots of the piece on my phone, they’re a bit hard to make out (bc these are from her instagram story at the time lol, i wouldn’t have access to this otherwise) but if you zoom in you can read most of what’s said hopefully!

[liminalmemories21]

9 Books

tagged by @cha-melodius. Thank you!

I'm 90% sure I've done this, but I'll never be able to find it now. And it's not like I could possibly contain myself in nine books. So, variation - nine authors I will read no questions asked whenever they come out with a new book.

1 - Everina Maxwell Winter's Orbit is just my entire heart. Didn't love Ocean's Echo quite as much, but still devoured it in one big gulp.

2 - Margaret Owen I know I've done PR for the Little Thieves trilogy (Goose Girl told from the POV of the goose girl + a heist - so good). But, the Merciful Crow duology is also just spectacular.

3 - Marissa Meyer The Lunar Chronicles are just astonishing - fairytale retellings in sci-fi future - Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Snow White.

4 - Patrick Ness (see, I do read men, sometimes, under highly selective circumstances) Chaos Walking just blew my entire mind with how smart and nuanced it was (have not seen the movie, do not plan to). But also The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and Release are gorgeous.

5 - Tess Sharpe My love for this author knows no bounds. Her women are never morally white - they're complicated, and they make hard decisions and live with the consequences.

6 - Melina Marchetta Jellicoe Road, and Finniken of the Rock, and Piper's Son. She writes in so many different genres, and I love all of them.

7 - Anna Marie McLemore When the Moon Was Ours, and The Weight of Feathers are just some of my favorite books ever. Their writing is so magical and lyrical.

8 - Maggie Stiefvater I cannot wait to see what she's doing next (also, my mind is still blown by the fact that she wrote the fourth book of the Raven Cycle when she was seriously ill and it was affecting her brain and she could barely think in sentenes).

9 - okay, and cheating here with all my beloved romance authors that make my world go around - Evie Dunmore, and Sarah MacLean, and Lisa Kleypas, and Julia Quinn, and Olivia Dade, and Patricia Briggs, and Ilona Andrews, and probably more that I'm blanking on right this second.

Tagging @rmd-writes, @jesuisici33, and @iboatedhere - 9 authors you will read without thinking twice.

[lesbianprophecy]

I can’t wait to drop out of school so that I have time to reread the haunting of hill house and to finish the Percy Jackson series and maybe even to reread on the Jellicoe road and MAYBE to read book club books but first I want to start nostalgically

[avocado-frog]

Happy STS! Today, I'm pulling away from characters (finally 🤭) and asking about influences. Who are your literary influences? Can you see specific influences coming through in some of your specific works?

HII URUHURGRGR I WROTE EVERYTHING OUT AND THEN CLOSED THE TAB LIKE A FREAKING DUMB DUMB MY BAD

The "s" in STS stands for sunday

Frankenstein, Coraline, and On the Jellicoe Road (i've mentioned that book a few times and that's because I eat that book for breakfast)

[fiction-quotes]

Raffaela comes down the stairs towards me. “You look terrible. What's happening?”

I want to slow down the pace of my heart, but I can't. The more I hear her speak, the harder it beats.

“Everyone's – ” she begins.

“What? Everyone's what? Disappointed? Thinks I've lost it? Thinks someone else should be doing this?”

She stares at me for a moment, a cold angry look on her face. A look I've never seen before.

“You know your problem?” she asks quietly. “It's that you're never interested in what anyone else is feeling. What I was trying to say before you rudely, as usual, interrupted me, is that all of us are worried about you, not about this situation, and we think you should just try to get some sleep and let us take over, but you don't care because the different between you and us is that you fly with...with...I-Don't-Give-a-Shit Airline and we fly with a friendlier one.”

It draws a crowd. I think Raffaela raising her voices tends to do that. It's mostly seniors and year tens, but I know that the juniors are listening from downstairs. The past leaders of my House would be rolling in their graves if they knew about the shouting and mayhem that has taken place in this House since they left.

“You're right,” I say walking up the rest of the stairs. “I don't give a shit.”

  —  On the Jellicoe Road (Melina Marchetta)