This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.
Melina MarchettaI'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
Melina MarchettaPeople arenโt interested in the truth, Dafar. Theyโre interested in what keeps them safe. Theyโre interested in being looked after. Theyโre interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.
Melina MarchettaNo chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]
Melina MarchettaUnexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.
Melina Marchetta