“In the second or so it had taken that bullet to leave its muzzle and penetrate my father's heart, between the pressure of that finger on the trigger and my father's soundless roar, somewhere in that infernal compression of decision, action, and consequence, I was forever altered.”

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke , book The Pure Weight of the Heart

Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 25.

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Australian author and journalist 1965

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Rend mon coeur chagrin.

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