I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.


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...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? ...
MELINA MARCHETTA
He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days b...
MELINA MARCHETTA
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.
MELINA MARCHETTA
The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would...
MELINA MARCHETTA
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...
MELINA MARCHETTA
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...
MELINA MARCHETTA
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?
MELINA MARCHETTA
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.
MELINA MARCHETTA
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?
MELINA MARCHETTA
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
MELINA MARCHETTA
From the stage Ben catches my eye. "This is for them, Taylor," he calls out as they begin to play. I...
MELINA MARCHETTA
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...
MELINA MARCHETTA
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...
MELINA MARCHETTA
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 ...
MELINA KANAKAREDES
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.
MELINA MERCOURI
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.
MELINA KENNEDY
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...
MELINA KANAKAREDES
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