If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one’s worth came from others.
– Melina Marchetta
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- There’s not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few. – Melina Marchetta
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- How unladylike of you to mention such a thing. – Melina Marchetta
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- 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
- Simple dreams are the hardest to come true – Melina Marchetta
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- The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools. – Melina Marchetta
- 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
- Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? – Melina Marchetta
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- Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better – Melina Marchetta
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- Maybe memories should be left the way they are. – Melina Marchetta
- When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord. – Melina Marchetta
- If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. – Melina Marchetta
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Because today, I think I’m leaning on the side of wonder. – Melina Marchetta
- The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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- Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for! – Ljupka Cvetanova