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What were you doing with her? I ask quietly. Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.

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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
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No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands. Then learn to live without your hands. No, because then we won't be able to do this, Ben says, giving him the finger [...]
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Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?' The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. 'Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I'd have lain down and died waiting.
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I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. It's bullshit, he tells me, flicking through it. There's no such thing as Atticus Finch. I shrug. It'd be nice if there was, though.
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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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It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.
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Who do you hang out with? Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid.
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How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.
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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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Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing? Raffy says in an irritated voice. It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.
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What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love? she asked quietly. Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury, he said fiercely. I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.
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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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I look around for the counter that sells my scent, but I'm so petrified that if I spray it in the air, nothing will come out. And then Mia's scent seems to fade away and everything else fades away with it and I know that all I have to do to recapture it is press the spray button again.
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Do you miss being friends with Santangelo? I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. What makes you think were friends? Everything. I hear her yawn. Being enemies with him is better. she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long whil
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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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Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.
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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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And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.
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