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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.
Melina Marchetta
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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
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Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.
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And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.
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If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.
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And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.
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I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.
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Do you miss being friends with Santangelo? I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. What makes you think were friends? Everything. I hear her yawn. Being enemies with him is better. she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long whil
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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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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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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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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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I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.
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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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This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.
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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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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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I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass, he says. I was there to throw myself in front of it.
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If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?
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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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There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
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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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