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Thing Quotes by Melina Marchetta
- She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at the lights and…
- My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where…
- I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through…
- 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…
- I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture,…
- 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.…
- How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.
- What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and…
- Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a bit…
- 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…
- 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…
- And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you…
- 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…
- It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer…
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