It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore.
Melina MarchettaIf we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.
Melina MarchettaCome here,โ she says. โNo, you come here.โ โI said it first.โ โRock paper scissors.โ โNo. Because youโll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then youโll win.โ Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first.
Melina MarchettaTomโs aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didnโt actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, โI want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liverโ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. Iโm glad I didnโt kick him out of my head.
Melina MarchettaThis 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 Marchetta