I'm thinking that after last night you shouldn't have to spend your morning in a hospital finding out if my mother has tried to OD."


"And I'm thinking that after last night I want to be anywhere you are and if that means being in a hospital asking about your mother, then so be it.

Melina Marchetta

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Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

Melina Marchetta

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Just say after Wednesday we never see each-"
"Don't" he says, angry.
"Jonah, you live six hundred kilometres away from me," I argue.
"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 manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty.

Melina Marchetta

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Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

Melina Marchetta

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So plunge that fact into your conscience and allow it to rotate for a while. Until it hurts.

Melina Marchetta

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How could you possibly want to compete about who suffered most?' Beatriss said sadly. 'For if you want to covet that prize, take it! Take it, but don't bring my child into your bitterness.

Melina Marchetta


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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 of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a
pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.

Melina Marchetta

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We could look at the side of wonder,’ Gargarin said.
‘What?’ Froi asked, as if Gargarin had gone insane.
‘Well, let’s say that instead of losing her, you gave her a chance to escape,’ Gargarin explained. ‘That’s the side of wonder.’
Froi heard a sound behind them and Lirah was there.
‘Since when do you look at the side of wonder?’ Froi asked.
‘I’m trying very hard,’ Gargarin said, scowling. ‘It’s irritating me, but I’m not giving up. I try to think of a wondrous thought every day when I wake, if you’d really like to know.

Melina Marchetta

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He's my father!" she bellowed, pointing to Trevanion.

"Vestie!" Beatriss said firmly, stopping to stare up at her. "I'll snip at the tongue if I ever see it in such a way again! Trevanion, speak to her."

Vestie hung her head, shamefaced.

"Vestie," he said, his voice still gentle.

"Yes, Father."

"Shout it out louder, my love. Shout it out louder.

Melina Marchetta

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So much hate and depression is making me feel sick, although that could also be attributed to the Pringles that I sandwiched between two Oreos.

Melina Marchetta


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