John Marsden Quotes

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.

the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.

It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.

Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.

Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

Never cry over something that can't cry over you.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.

How strange it would now — like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?

We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.

Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.