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I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.

I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I’d have lain down and died waiting.
– Melina Marchetta

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  1. If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one’s worth came from others. – Melina Marchetta
  2. She felt the phrase -œdemand her rights- had lain inside her forever, waiting. – Clarice Lispector
  3. 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
  4. She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened. – Melina Marchetta
  5. 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
  6. The people I’m stuck with in my life now aren’t sucking the life out of me, they just suck. – Melina Marchetta
  7. It’s all rather political, mourning is. – Melina Marchetta
  8. When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. – Melina Marchetta
  9. It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do. – Melina Marchetta
  10. He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them. – Melina Marchetta
  11. There’s not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few. – Melina Marchetta
  12. I remember passion. – Melina Marchetta
  13. Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories. – Melina Marchetta
  14. I still wake with your name on my lips every morning. – Melina Marchetta
  15. How unladylike of you to mention such a thing. – Melina Marchetta
  16. People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else. – Melina Marchetta
  17. Simple dreams are the hardest to come true – Melina Marchetta
  18. How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again? – Melina Marchetta
  19. The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools. – Melina Marchetta
  20. 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
  21. Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? – Melina Marchetta
  22. In the end, the sum of my vices is all me. – Melina Marchetta
  23. Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better – Melina Marchetta
  24. Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better – Melina Marchetta
  25. Just ask how I’m feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does. – Melina Marchetta
  26. You can’t go around feeling too much. – Melina Marchetta
  27. Maybe memories should be left the way they are. – Melina Marchetta
  28. When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord. – Melina Marchetta
  29. If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. – Melina Marchetta
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before. – Melina Marchetta
  36. Because today, I think I’m leaning on the side of wonder. – Melina Marchetta
  37. As a woman when you determine your self-worth, you also determine how powerful you are. – Micheline Jean Louis
  38. Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves. – Peter V Brett
  39. Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God? – Lysa TerKeurst
  40. You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless(…) – Tara Lain

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