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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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I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
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If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless, I tell him. He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly. Not driving any more.
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It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.
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We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot. Don't say that, I yelled. You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.
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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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Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.
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I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.
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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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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 beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.
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Simple dreams are the hardest to come true
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Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.
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You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?
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Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.
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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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She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.
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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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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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Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.
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