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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.

Melina Marchetta

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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
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Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
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It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.
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You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?
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Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
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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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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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My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
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I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.
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When one is silent, those around speak even more.
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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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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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Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?' 'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.
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She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.
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He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Okay, would you like pizza? I don't think you deserve my company but I feel sorry for you so I'll say yes. God help me, he said, half under his breath.
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Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.
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City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
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Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.
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The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
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I love it when you're demented like this.
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A piece of me is gone, she told me once while we were bra shopping. I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
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So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. 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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