John Marsden Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Marsden
John Marsden Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.
I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.
If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.
Oh Ellie, doesn't it make your mouth water?"
"It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.
"It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.
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.
Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.
How strange it would now - like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?
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.
Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
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.
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.
If you have blank spots instead of stories for part of your life, then that would be a pretty serious thing I think.
At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks.
Then you grow up.
Then you grow up.
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.
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.