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Simple dreams are the hardest to come true
Melina Marchetta
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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
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Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
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I look at him. It's odious, he says. Detention? I ask, confused. Huh? We have no idea what the other is talking about. What's odious? I ask. O.D.S, he says, pointing to his discman and obviously referring to some dropkick band. Like I really care.
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A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.
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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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Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better
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You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.
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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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Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he asks quietly. He hears her breathing so close to his ear. 'Yes.' 'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.
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It's not that I like you least [...] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.
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Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
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What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.
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Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.
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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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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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My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
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he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.
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