"Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy."

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Melina Marchetta

“I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.”
“The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.”
“My mum always used to say to me that, out of her three boys, 'Chris, you were the girl!' I'd speak to her about far more things (than my brothers would) and far more things than she needed to hear about, too. I was a chatty kid.”
“But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.”
“Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!”

Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.77, Emblem Editions
“Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.”
“It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business”
“I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.”

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