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Melina Marchetta

"The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools."

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"The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools."

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"Do you love me?' he asked instead. 'Because if you don't, I'd wait until you did. I'd wait weeks and months and years."
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"I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked.'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth.And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth."
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"When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin.And this was her penance.Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead."
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"I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don't want to leave it, others because the world around them won't let them in."
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"She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it's to tell her that something bad has happened."
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"I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food."
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"I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him.'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated."
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"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."
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"How unladylike of you to mention such a thing."
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"I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit."
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