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. (John Marsden)
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies. View quote
John Marsden
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. View quote
John Marsden
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. View quote
John Marsden
Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive. View quote
John Marsden
Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead. View quote
John Marsden
At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up. View quote
John Marsden
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. View quote
John Marsden
Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted. View quote
John Marsden
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. View quote
John Marsden
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things. (John Marsden)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My pen.' Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch', ‘the paper', but ‘my pen'. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It's about the most important thing I own. View quote
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the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks. View quote
John Marsden
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. View quote
John Marsden
I live in the light, But carry my dark with me. View quote
John Marsden
We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy. View quote
John Marsden
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse. View quote
John Marsden
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. View quote
John Marsden
Never cry over anything that can't cry over you. (John Marsden)
Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does. View quote
John Marsden
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. View quote
John Marsden
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. View quote
John Marsden