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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 need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.


Melina Marchetta

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So t...
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...
"I d...
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Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
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-We're seventeen-year-olds with our own island. We're already winners.
ADI ALSAID Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
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E: You want the truth? I think you're my guardi...
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My fire is almost ashes too;
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LAMAR ALEXANDER Shall a man
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the wate...
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I grin. 'So you're...
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“Shots!” Americ...
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This is my story; I promise to leave n...
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“Oh?” I turn at the wais...
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My answer was automatic and ingrained. “Seventeen.”
“...
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"I know it," he said.
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Too soon, withdrawn my words too late;
And eaten in an ech...
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Gold for yes and green...
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"Oh thank God! I mean thank God... that you... ha...
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Tell me my copy is m...
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CARINE ROITFELD I miss that jellied coconut and that
invigorating coconut water,
Oh, how I miss my sweet B...
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I went back where my old loves stayed,
But my heart wa...
SARA TEASDALE dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
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BARBARA REBORATTI I feel like an old person. I feel like, 'What is this technology?' I think there's some ...
AJ LEE But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.
Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.' BRET EASTON ELLIS My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words"
TIFFANY REISZ My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
GEORGE TAKEI Oh, so it was a lifesaving kiss."

"Well, if you want to put it that way..."

ILONA ANDREWS The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
DAN STEVENS I hope I can repeat what I did last year. I need to keep working on what I need to do to reach my ul...
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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