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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
Every
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But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.
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Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.
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Even five minutes of your time can make someone's day.
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If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.
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In a kinder world, he whispered, one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.
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Play me something that makes me feel This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I need you to make things real. Walk inside me without silence, Kill the past and change the tense. Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring Take me places that make more sense.
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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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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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And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.
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Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?
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I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.
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And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore. I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.
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I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.
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They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.
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You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.
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It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.
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No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke
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It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.
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I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs. Anson Choi feigns surprise. What's her name? I didn't actually catch her name, Griggs continues. Lily, Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look. Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name. It's Taylor's middle name, Raffaela calls bac
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Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.
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