The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.
Melina MarchettaI fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to ensure that I won't." "But what if you bring harm or fail to protect those you don't know? Or don't love? Will you care as much?" "Probably not." "Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.
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 MarchettaItโs Tolstoy, by the way,โ I say as I open the door. He turns around. โWhat?โ Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. โThe writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.
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