Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs
Melina MarchettaThey always prided themselves on looking youthful. โFortyโs the new thirty,โ theyโd joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then fortyโs the new one hundred.
Melina MarchettaDo you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
Melina MarchettaBut grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
Melina Marchetta