Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for … - Melina Marchetta

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Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

Melina Marchetta

Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.

Strong, Know How, Knows, Finnikin, Know, Everyone

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It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

Forget Everything, Love, Maybe, Pain

What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now?" he asks, digging his hands into the pockets of his khaki pants, grinning right back at me. "I think it would cause a riot. " "Well, you know me," he says, lowering his head towards me. "Causing a riot is what I do best. " Santangelo approaches before Griggs gets any closer and pulls him away. "Are you guys insane?" he says, irritated. "It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians," I say, throwing his own words back at him.

Gets, Griggs, Hands, Ideas, Know, Thinking

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

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I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

Hug, Medicine, Realize, Realizing

The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant. " I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed. " If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.

Baby, Depression, Mother, Mum, Road

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