‘Do what to me? I don’t think that leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs,’ I lie.
‘You being on that platform changed mine.’
This isn’t romance. This isn’t a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.
‘I wasn’t there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass,’ he says. ‘I was there to throw myself in front of it.’”
- On The Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
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