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

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

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  2. Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being tr – Melina Marchetta
  3. The people I’m stuck with in my life now aren’t sucking the life out of me, they just suck. – Melina Marchetta
  4. It’s all rather political, mourning is. – Melina Marchetta
  5. When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. – Melina Marchetta
  6. It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do. – Melina Marchetta
  7. He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them. – Melina Marchetta
  8. There’s not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few. – Melina Marchetta
  9. I remember passion. – Melina Marchetta
  10. Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories. – Melina Marchetta
  11. I still wake with your name on my lips every morning. – Melina Marchetta
  12. How unladylike of you to mention such a thing. – Melina Marchetta
  13. People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else. – Melina Marchetta
  14. Do not cry,- she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. -œDo not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end. – Melina Marchetta
  15. Simple dreams are the hardest to come true – Melina Marchetta
  16. How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again? – Melina Marchetta
  17. God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it. – Melina Marchetta
  18. Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? – Melina Marchetta
  19. In the end, the sum of my vices is all me. – Melina Marchetta
  20. Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better – Melina Marchetta
  21. Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better – Melina Marchetta
  22. Just ask how I’m feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does. – Melina Marchetta
  23. You can’t go around feeling too much. – Melina Marchetta
  24. Maybe memories should be left the way they are. – Melina Marchetta
  25. When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord. – Melina Marchetta
  26. If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. – Melina Marchetta
  27. And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them. – Melina Marchetta
  28. If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she’d never ever be able to operate like a normal person again. – Melina Marchetta
  29. 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. – Melina Marchetta
  30. I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring. – Melina Marchetta
  31. I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring. – Melina Marchetta
  32. But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before. – Melina Marchetta
  33. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I’d have lain down and died waiting. – Melina Marchetta
  34. If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one’s worth came from others. – Melina Marchetta
  35. Because today, I think I’m leaning on the side of wonder. – Melina Marchetta
  36. The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings. – Nicholas D Kristof
  37. We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. – Marshall McLuhan
  38. Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self. – Lotoya Peterson
  39. What do you have that the Lord didn’t provide?What do you need that the Lord can’t provide? – Lailah Gifty Akita
  40. Provide for her Future-”if you can!-”That’s my motto!-”But a man’s just a plain bum who don’t provide for his own Past! – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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