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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!
Melina Marchetta
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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
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Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
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Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he asks quietly. He hears her breathing so close to his ear. 'Yes.' 'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.
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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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So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around? Jellicoe Road
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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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Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi? I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt laying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her. Oh, too profound, my friend. Much too profound.
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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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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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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.
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Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better
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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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Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing? Raffy says in an irritated voice. It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.
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Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.
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Santangelo is irritated. We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the boundaries. We've seen you in your jocks, she reminds him. Taylor and Griggs have pashed. You've broken into your father's police station for us. Don't you think the war has lost a bit of its tension?
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I love it when you're demented like this.
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You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.
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Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?
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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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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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He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
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