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Even five minutes of your time can make someone's day.

Melina Marchetta

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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
Five
Someone
Even
Make
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Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.
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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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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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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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A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.
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But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.
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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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Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.
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I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.
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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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We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?
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Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.
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This is war, he say quietly. Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.
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If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I’d spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That’s the difference between you and me, Tom. I’d go back to the moment it all fell apart and I’d start there.
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And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.
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I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.
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Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
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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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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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When one is silent, those around speak even more.
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