• 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: 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 (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.66, Knopf Books for Young Readers