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Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs
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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We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot. Don't say that, I yelled. You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.
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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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Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.
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One day came. Because finally I understood.
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We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy. And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming, my dad says. Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them. Lamb roast. Am I invited?
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Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name. It's Taylor's middle name.
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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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And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.
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I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.
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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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It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game studying in one of the classrooms or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.
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Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.
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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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It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians
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I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.
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Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.
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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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Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.
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