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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.

Melina Marchetta

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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
Emancipated
Free
Running
Think
Thinking
Life

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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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It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.
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If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.
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What's with what you're wearing? Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others. It's pretty hideous, isn't it? I say. Don't force me to look at it, he says. It's see-through. That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.
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I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.
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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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Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.
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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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Come here,” she says. “No, you come here.” “I said it first.” “Rock paper scissors.” “No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then you’ll win.” Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first.
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See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.
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This is war, he say quietly. Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.
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Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.
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If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.
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Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.
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In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.
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I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.
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I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.
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Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs
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Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
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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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