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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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Donna Grant

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

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

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"98% of the things said by a drunk man are true, 98% of those said by a horny man aren't."

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Donna Grant

"People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead."

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Melina Marchetta
"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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Melina Marchetta
"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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Melina Marchetta
"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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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."

Honesty

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

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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."

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Melina Marchetta
"I remember passion."

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Melina Marchetta
"And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life."

Life

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Melina Marchetta
"Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does."

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Melina Marchetta
"If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others."

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