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Been Quotes by Melina Marchetta
- Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough…
- We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was…
- When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be…
- 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…
- Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.
- Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were…
- I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.
- But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of…
- I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said. Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised,…
- Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable…
- He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been…
- But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all…
- Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of…
- then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long time. It was…
- What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury,"…
- It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes…
- Their bedroom has always been our sanctuary. Sometimes at night we'll end up on their bed just talking. My dad will be snoring and Mia…
- You've been quiet these past days," Trevanion said. "Are you going to tell me what the...exchange of words was about?" "Who said there was an…
- 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…
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