I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
Melina MarchettaI'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.
Melina MarchettaBut you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.
Melina MarchettaPeople with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.
Melina MarchettaIยดd read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like heยดs their idol.
Melina Marchetta