“When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.”

— Melina Marchetta, book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

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Australian teen writer 1965

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