“It'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 Marchetta , book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

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