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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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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
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Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
World
Sword
Except
Trust
Use
Need
Needs
Much

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I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.
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Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?' 'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.
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Don't you ever touch my car again, Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his mother. Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way. You've just made our hit list, he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.
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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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And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore. I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.
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God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.
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I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.
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