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Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.
Melina Marchetta
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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
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Carmelina Marchetta
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Come here,” she says. “No, you come here.” “I said it first.” “Rock paper scissors.” “No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then you’ll win.” Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first.
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Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.
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A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.’ ‘Let me tell you something, Olivier,’ she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, ‘this is my real world.
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You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.
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I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.
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Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.
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Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
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She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.
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But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
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She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.
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I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.
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When one is silent, those around speak even more.
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You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and stands up. 'You chicks give me the shits,' he says. 'You, on the other hand, brighten up our day,' I tell him. 'We all regard you as a god.
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It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
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he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.
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A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.
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He nods. My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
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So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around? Jellicoe Road
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She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and Siobhan and Francesca use his body so shamelessly he doesn't feel the need to turn his head and press his mouth against their hair.
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