And secondly, losing your virginity doesn't make you a slut. I slept with your father when I was your age. . . '

'Mia,' my father roared from the other room.

'What? So we're going to lie to her now,?' she shouted back.

He walked in. 'What if your mother finds out? Or my mother?'

'Robert, it was twenty years ago. I don't think there's much they can do.'

He looked at me, pointing a finger. 'No sex for you.' He used the Soup Nazi's accent from Seinfeld.

Melina Marchetta


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Japan." Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. Commit it to memory and make good use of it. Because if I come home and you're still pining over this little girl without having given her a chance, I will call you a chicken shit for the rest of your life.

Melina Marchetta


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You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

Melina Marchetta


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I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?"
"I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues.
"Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look.
"Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name."
"It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again.

Melina Marchetta

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The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

Melina Marchetta

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Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.

Melina Marchetta

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We have arsonists.

Melina Marchetta


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And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.

Melina Marchetta


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To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

Melina Marchetta


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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.

Melina Marchetta


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