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Melina Marchetta

"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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"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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Melina Marchetta
"You can't go around feeling too much."

Self

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Melina Marchetta
"It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love."

Love

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Melina Marchetta
"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."

Life

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Melina Marchetta
"Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on."

Learning

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Melina Marchetta
"At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too."

Emotion

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Melina Marchetta
"Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?"

Culture

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Melina Marchetta
"The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck."

Life

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

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Melina Marchetta
"How unladylike of you to mention such a thing."

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Melina Marchetta
"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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Aberjhani

"Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth."

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Aberjhani

"You couldn't listen to honest man whom you hate."

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Aberjhani

"I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down."

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Aberjhani

"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."

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Aberjhani

"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."

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Aberjhani

"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"

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Aberjhani

"Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple," he had told her, "can't you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying?"

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Aberjhani

"I won't lie-I don't."

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Aberjhani

"If you say that you have never lied at all,then you give too much trust on anybody."

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Aberjhani

"Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it."

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