John Marsden quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by John Marsden

John Marsden Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from John Marsden on Wise Famous Quotes.

Silence, sometimes my fortress, always my prison.

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

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

Let's go home,' Homer said, 'to Hell.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

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

The biggest risk, is to take no risks

I've succeeded, I guess, but sometimes maybe to succeed is to fail

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

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

This is bigger than a fart in a bathtub, you know.

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

They weren't necessarily soldiers, but you didn't have to be soldiers to be affected by it all.

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

Oh Ellie, doesn't it make your mouth water?"
"It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.

Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.

Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall.

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.

So, am I a genius?

Never cry over anything that can't cry over you

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.

Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow ...

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

Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.

I refuse to think fear. I will think strong. I will think brave.

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

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.

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

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

Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.

I don't want them hanging a double murder on me. It wouldn't look good on my school record.

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

We're home already.

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

In the midst of death we are in life

Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.

So what are violinists?
Well, I think they're really sensitive, and kind of deep.

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

How funny are dogs?

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

The human eye doesn't look above its own height.

We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.

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

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.

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

I've heard enough about what you want to do; now tell me what needs doing

Being brave is a choice you make. You've got to say to yourself: I'm going to think brave. I refuse to think fear or panic.

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

If you have blank spots instead of stories for part of your life, then that would be a pretty serious thing I think.

The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

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

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

Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission

The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old.

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

I felt that my life was permanently damaged, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a shell.

We survived, Ellie, we survived.

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.

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

We're all so curiously alone, but it's important to keep making signals through the glass