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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
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Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
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You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and stands up. 'You chicks give me the shits,' he says. 'You, on the other hand, brighten up our day,' I tell him. 'We all regard you as a god.
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There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning of winter.’ ‘Oh the poor animal,’ she cried out, ‘they’re such beautiful creatures.’ ‘I’m speaking of the royal seal placed on correspondence, as you would know,’ he said.
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She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.
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I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.
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I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless. Like I used to be.
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Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better
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Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.
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How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?
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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'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!
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The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
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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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Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who will listen. God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true. The first name shatters him. The second makes his head spin.
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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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So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around? Jellicoe Road
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See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.
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We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?
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Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.
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When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.
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Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
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