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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
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Sydney
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Carmelina Marchetta
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What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.
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And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.
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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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In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.
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According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.
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It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.
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It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
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There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.
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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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And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life.
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I'm scared to die, I whispered as Michael walked in. He was scared to live, he said kissing my forehead.
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No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands. Then learn to live without your hands. No, because then we won't be able to do this, Ben says, giving him the finger [...]
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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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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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No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.
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We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?
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