Women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that.
Melina MarchettaHe knows no other way but ugliness,โ Sir Topher said quietly. โHe was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been scum who live by their own rules. No one has ever taught him otherwise.โ โAm I to forgive?โ she said, her voice shaking with anger. โNo,โ he said sadly. โPity him. Or give him new rules. Or put him down like a wild animal before he becomes a monster who destroys everything he encounters.
Melina MarchettaAnd at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.
Melina MarchettaThe music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is running toward me, and I can tell by the look on her face that she's found out about the musical, too. I sigh, shaking my head. "I have to give Justine a lesson in holding back," I tell him. "She's just way too enthusiastic". She grabs my arms in excitement. "We're doing Les Mis." I scream hysterically, clutching her as we jump up and down.
Melina MarchettaBut you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.
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