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Down Quotes by Melina Marchetta
- This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a…
- The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around…
- 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…
- Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down…
- Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who…
- I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that…
- For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image he displays. Maybe…
- No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke
- 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…
- Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry over and over…
- The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is running toward me,…
- I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never…
- It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their…
- Coffee?" Santangelo calls down to us. We both look up. He,Ben, and Raffy are hanging over the side. "Is it espresso?" Anson Choi asks behind…
- Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you…
- I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look at my beautiful…
- And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything,…
- Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by…
- Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because…
- 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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