“Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?"
Did I wonder?
When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know?
Wonder dies.”
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
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Melina Marchetta 204
Australian teen writer 1965Related quotes

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