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It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.
Melina Marchetta
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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
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Carmelina Marchetta
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I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.
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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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I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.
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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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You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.
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A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.
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We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility I've just never had to practise it.
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The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.
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Come here,” she says. “No, you come here.” “I said it first.” “Rock paper scissors.” “No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then you’ll win.” Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first.
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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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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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What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?
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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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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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Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protector and guide for as long as he lived. Lucian vowed he would be the light whom they traveled toward in times of need.
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In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.
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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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It's not that I like you least [...] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.
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When one is silent, those around speak even more.
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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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