Justine Larbalestier Quotes

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That’s my promise. This time I truly mean it.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.

I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.

I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.

Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!

I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.

Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!

I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

I enjoyed Ready For This, which was created by the people behind Dance Academy and Redfern Now, and really it's what you'd get if you crossed Redfern Now with Dance Academy

The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.

My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

Blogging, I love you no matter how out of fashion you are.

I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.

Wolves are social. They need their pack.

See you in the fall.

She promised to be good. She wasn't.

Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.

Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.

Didn’t anyone ask you where your parents are?""They asked. Especially about my parents.""What did you tell them?""I said I ate them.""Jesus, Rosa.

If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.