Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.
Melina MarchettaPeople arenโt interested in the truth, Dafar. Theyโre interested in what keeps them safe. Theyโre interested in being looked after. Theyโre interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.
Melina MarchettaIt's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.
Melina MarchettaWe're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.
Melina MarchettaMy old school, St Stellaโs, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldnโt allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didnโt bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, youโll sense thereโs an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.
Melina Marchetta