We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?

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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

We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?

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We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?

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