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When one is silent, those around speak even more.

Melina Marchetta

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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
Silent
Speak
Around
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I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless. Like I used to be.
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It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.
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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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I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.
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I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.
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We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, she told him once. I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.
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Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.
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Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.
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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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She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.
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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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It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
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Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.
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When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.
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There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
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I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.
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I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
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Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.
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Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I'm about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again.
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She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.
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