Melina Marchetta quote: "But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them."

And won’t he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for t...
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I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released,...
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Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
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I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear a...
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Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.
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When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
Th...
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The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears.
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Have you ever seen The Last of the Mohicans?"
"I love it."
"Really?" I'm over the m...
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Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.

'The first one. I really resent being ca...
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His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god...
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When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is...
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City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
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We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot."
"Don't say that," I yelled. "You're ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.
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When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
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He came third in the state for woodwork,”
Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud ...
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Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?
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Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prison...
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Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. ...
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Despite the voice in his head that says he doesn’t want anything that’s owed to his father, Tom ...
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If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road...
MELINA MARCHETTA

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

I counted.

It happen...
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I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being part of him. Be...
MELINA MARCHETTA

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it s...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that cou...
MELINA MARCHETTA

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the peopl...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.
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He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I...
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I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.
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I spent the whole morning looking at him. He looked at Mama. Mama looked at me. Then he would look a...
MELINA MARCHETTA

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says.
"I don't need to. You're doing a better job.
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He watched as Finnikin swung onto the horse, his sleeve stained with blood. Froi liked the way Finni...
MELINA MARCHETTA

See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.
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Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.
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He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in...
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His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign

For she would be Queen of Lumat...
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But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had bee...
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He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons bu...
MELINA MARCHETTA

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.
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And when Finnikin grabbed her to him and buried his face in her neck and then bent down and placed h...
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And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they...
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I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her h...
MELINA MARCHETTA

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massac...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.
MELINA MARCHETTA

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
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Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protecto...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?"
He loved the flush th...
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Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed f...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Tell me about the farm," she pleaded as drops of blood began to appear on her hand.
"The farm?...
MELINA MARCHETTA

When one is silent, those around speak even more.
MELINA MARCHETTA

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
MELINA MARCHETTA

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which...
MELINA MARCHETTA

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
MELINA MARCHETTA

Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords...
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This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and th...
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Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared w...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
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Ned?' he says, after a while. 'Oi, Ned?'
'What?'
'If someone says to you that the guy they...
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She looks at Sam. 'Close your ears if you don't want to know what I suspect to be the sex of your ch...
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He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?"
"I don't think you des...
MELINA MARCHETTA

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.
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Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better
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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 awkw...
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I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think...
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This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying.
"Raffy, half our House has burnt down,"...
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But it was definitely a car trailing me and quickly I prepared myself for a great dash. I began quic...
MELINA MARCHETTA

What did she say to you?"
"Nothing."
"Oh, great. I have to try to get you out of this mess...
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How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?
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God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate actio...
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What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.
MELINA MARCHETTA

Play me something that makes me feel;
This soul inside me is made of steel.
Brain is breat...
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Finnikin had learned over the years not to think of anything beyond the practicalities of getting fr...
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But Froi looked around with wonder.
As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.
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People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They�...
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I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.
Froi shivered. He realised that the wor...
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Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward...
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I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappucci...
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Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute ...
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Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people an...
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You're the father of the person who is my life.
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I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in.
"He was scared to live," he said kissing ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephin...
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It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. ...
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I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have o...
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Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper han...
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You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and t...
MELINA MARCHETTA

One day" came.
Because finally I understood.
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Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?
I detest that ...
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It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers.
Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
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You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for the...
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Simple dreams are the hardest to come true
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Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A...
MELINA MARCHETTA

To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.
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And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your p...
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You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when th...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb ins...
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She asked me what type of contraceptive I use.
Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.
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Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. Bu...
MELINA MARCHETTA

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.
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She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is...
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Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from t...
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We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and ...
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sometimes he feels a pull towards Francesca. She was the reason he came into the group. It was her m...
MELINA MARCHETTA

What about the contacts your mum had?” his dad asked.
“I rang and spoke to four very polite...
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There's nothing to took forward to any more if you don't have dreams," he said. "Because dreams are ...
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You're good enough, Jacob.
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She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.
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I won't push you for it anymore, okay. We'll stick to clever conversation.
A bit of this and th...
MELINA MARCHETTA

What is it? A prize or something?
No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It b...
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I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods.
Well then you'll never ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

We don't even love each other.
I do a bit, you know.
You do what a bit?
You know. Lik...
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But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it.
And next year someone...
MELINA MARCHETTA

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.
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You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. Ther...
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They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. MELINA MARCHETTA

Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names un...
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I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if I just ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I’d...
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She misses him more now than when he was away
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Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. E...
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Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question.
'Are you alone?' he ask...
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Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.
MELINA MARCHETTA

The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.
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Come here,” she says.
“No, you come here.”
“I said it first.”
“Rock paper...
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How would you like it if I said to you, 'It kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit bea...
MELINA MARCHETTA

And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, a...
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She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Ja...
MELINA MARCHETTA

...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? ...
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He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days b...
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I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I ...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
MELINA MARCHETTA

What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell hi...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.
MELINA MARCHETTA

He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.
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The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would...
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Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that I can s...
MELINA MARCHETTA

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. B...
MELINA MARCHETTA

I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develo...
MELINA MARCHETTA

My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Guess what?' Fitz said.
'I don't know,' Jude said. 'What? Narnie smiled?' He glanced at her for...
MELINA MARCHETTA

What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"I...
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If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the be...
MELINA MARCHETTA

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I...
MELINA MARCHETTA

These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell...
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Never,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.
MELINA MARCHETTA

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
MELINA MARCHETTA

From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.
MELINA MARCHETTA

Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.
MELINA MARCHETTA

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?
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He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fuck...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Hold my hand because I might disappear.
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One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left beh...
MELINA MARCHETTA

We just have to learn to meet each other halfway okay?
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This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Stop. Revive. Survive
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From the stage Ben catches my eye. "This is for them, Taylor," he calls out as they begin to play. I...
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He took her face in his bloody hands. 'I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breath...
MELINA MARCHETTA

I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T
rang you over and over again and you woul...
MELINA MARCHETTA

I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev...
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I just stare at him. I want to ask him a thousand questions, but I can tell he doesn't want to be as...
MELINA MARCHETTA

They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each othe...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them i...
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And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
He wished th...
MELINA MARCHETTA

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have ...
MELINA MERCOURI

You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you some...
MELINA MERCOURI

It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter ...
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Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and k...
MELINA KANAKAREDES

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.
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We lived in Little Elm many years ago, from 1963 to 1975, and I continue to reside close to Little E...
MELINA SMITH

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.
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And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of ...
MELINA MERCOURI

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and...
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Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis t...
MELINA MERCOURI

I don't really pay a whole lot of attention to the numbers and the things that bear out during the d...
MELINA KENNEDY

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

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But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

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