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Causing a riot is what I do best.
Melina Marchetta
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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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Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.
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You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.
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Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.
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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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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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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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What do you want from me? he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
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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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Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
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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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I don't care what my friends think. You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.
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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 approach the house and I wave at Jimmy. And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming, my dad says. Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them. Lamb roast. Am I invited?
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Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.
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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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So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. 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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I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.
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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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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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