Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you think were friends?" "Everything." I hear her yawn. "Being enemies with him is better." she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long while.
Melina MarchettaI'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.
Melina MarchettaItโs all a bit of a gamble, mate. Thatโs all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we donโt take chances.
Melina MarchettaAnd if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I don't want my parents or brother knowing, Will's like, 'We'll deal with it.' He's never said, 'I'll fix it up.' He just says, 'You're not up to going back to uni to finish your Honours this year? Big deal. There's next year. We'll deal with it.'" She nods. "That's what he does well.
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