Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.
Melina MarchettaTag: love safety angst separation
Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.
Melina Marchetta...he wanted to be all poetic, but in an instant he forgot Joe's poem about Japan except the part about 'you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,' and a new sound entered his life...
Melina MarchettaThere were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning of winter.’
‘Oh the poor animal,’ she cried out, ‘they’re such beautiful creatures.’
‘I’m speaking of the royal seal placed on correspondence, as you would know,’ he said.
Tag: humor
His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign
For she would be Queen of Lumatere.
But he would be king to her.
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 them completely.
Melina MarchettaTag: depression
These guys fart a lot as well. I'm not saying that girls don't. We just aren't as passionate about them. The smell is sometimes overwhelming and I want to gag. They don't just limit these attacks to the classroom-they can come at you from anywhere around the school. The corridor, the stairwell, the canteen line. There's one area we call Fart Corridor because it belongs to the Year Eights and Nines, who are the biggest perpetrators. They make no apologies and feel no embarrassment. If a girl did one at St. Stella's she'd be an outcast for the rest of her natural life. Here, it's a badge of honor.
Melina MarchettaTag: melina-marchetta fart saving-francesca francesca-spinelli
And he saw it in her eyes. Still. The belief that there could be someone other than herself. You, he wanted to shout. You. No one but you. Stupid, stupid girl.
Melina MarchettaTag: love
This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.
Melina MarchettaTag: first-sentence opening-lines first-lines
He took her face in his bloody hands. 'I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breathing until I do. So you're going to have to promise me that you won’t lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.'
He tried to wipe her tears, but there were too many.
'I heard your song the moment we were born," she sobbed. "And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.'
She pressed cold lips against his and they tasted the salt of each other's tears.
'Are you ready?' he asked.
She nodded.
'Run!
Tag: parting-ways
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