Looking for Alibrandi

by

Melina Marchetta

Lee is one of Josie’s best friends. Lee is popular and enjoys drinking and hanging out with surfers, something that Josie finds perplexing given that Lee’s father is a verbally abusive alcoholic. Josie insists that she and Lee don’t have much in common aside from both being part of their group of four friends, though she and Lee can talk for hours about anything and nothing. The biggest difference between them is that Lee’s white Australian family uses anti-Italian slurs. Within the group, Lee is kind and is the only girl capable of reining in Sera at all. She’s not sure what she wants to do after she graduates.

Lee Quotes in Looking for Alibrandi

The Looking for Alibrandi quotes below are all either spoken by Lee or refer to Lee. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 32 Quotes

I’ve figured out that it doesn’t matter whether I’m Josephine Andretti who was never an Alibrandi, who should have been a Sandford and who may never be a Coote. It matters who I feel like I am—and I feel like Michael and Christina’s daughter and Katia’s granddaughter; Sera, Anna, and Lee’s friend, and Robert’s cousin.

Related Characters: Josephine “Josie” Alibrandi (speaker), Mama, Nonna Katia, Marcus Sandford, Michael Andretti, Anna, Sera, Lee, Robert
Page Number: 312-313
Explanation and Analysis:
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Lee Quotes in Looking for Alibrandi

The Looking for Alibrandi quotes below are all either spoken by Lee or refer to Lee. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Family Theme Icon
).
Chapter 32 Quotes

I’ve figured out that it doesn’t matter whether I’m Josephine Andretti who was never an Alibrandi, who should have been a Sandford and who may never be a Coote. It matters who I feel like I am—and I feel like Michael and Christina’s daughter and Katia’s granddaughter; Sera, Anna, and Lee’s friend, and Robert’s cousin.

Related Characters: Josephine “Josie” Alibrandi (speaker), Mama, Nonna Katia, Marcus Sandford, Michael Andretti, Anna, Sera, Lee, Robert
Page Number: 312-313
Explanation and Analysis: