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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.
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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How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?
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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 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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Don't you ever touch my car again, Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his mother. Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way. You've just made our hit list, he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.
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And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.
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You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.
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Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.
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It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.
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One day came. Because finally I understood.
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I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.
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Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
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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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There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
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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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Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.
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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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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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We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women.
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He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
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