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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
Hardest
Dreams
Simple
True
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Come

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Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
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You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.
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I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.
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You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.
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It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
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What do you want from me? he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
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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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Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.
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There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
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