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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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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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I shrug. I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you. He chuckles. Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone.
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Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing? Raffy says in an irritated voice. It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.
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What are you doing? she asked, trying to raise herself. First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.
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Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.
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In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.
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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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You can't go around feeling too much.
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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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People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.
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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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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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Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.
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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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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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She misses him more now than when he was away
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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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She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.
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I don't care what my friends think. You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.
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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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