John Marsden

“Let’s go home,’ Homer said, ‘to Hell.”

— John Marsden

“Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission”

— John Marsden

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

— John Marsden

“The biggest risk, is to take no risks”

— John Marsden

“How funny are dogs?”

— John Marsden

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

— John Marsden

“We survived, Ellie, we survived.”

— John Marsden

“So, am I a genius?”

— John Marsden

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

— John Marsden

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

— John Marsden

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

— John Marsden

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.

— John Marsden

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

— John Marsden

“The human eye doesn’t look above its own height.”

— John Marsden

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

— John Marsden

Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.

— John Marsden

“I wondered how long an adult could talk to a kid without using the word "but." About forty seconds'd be the record…

— John Marsden

“Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.”

— John Marsden

“Human laws, moral laws, religious laws, they seemed artificial and basic, almost childlike.”

— John Marsden

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

— John Marsden

“In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”

— John Marsden

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

— John Marsden

“I make people uncomfortable. The kind ones get angry because their kindness doesn't work. The unkind ones get angry because they think…

— 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…

— 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…

— John Marsden

“There's nothing like the very early morning. It's the sweetness of the air, the sweet coolness; it's the bubbling of the creek…

— John Marsden

“If I have to do battle with you a thousand times to prove my point, I'll do it.' The queen unwisely asked,…

— John Marsden

“It's funny about a face, how big a difference it makes. I mean, one day you look in th mirror and you…

— John Marsden

“We’ve all had to rewrite the scripts of our lives the last few weeks. We’ve learnt a lot and we’ve had to…

— John Marsden

“A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may…

— John Marsden

“But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling…

— John Marsden

“A farm is just an accumulation of stories really. Same with people... "A farmer's footsteps are the best fertiliser," Dad used to…

— John Marsden

We’ve got to stick together, that’s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I don’t want to…

— John Marsden

“What happened next played itself out like a terrible drama with two spectators. Lee and I stayed on our side of the…

— John Marsden

“There’s life in his face again. It occurs to me that this is the best thing I could have done, it’s actually…

— John Marsden

“But somehow, standing in the clear night air, under a sky that glowed like a shower of sparks, none of that stuff…

— John Marsden

“I remember Robyn saying once ‘Talking about yourself can be selfish or generous’. When I asked what she meant, she said: ‘If…

— John Marsden

We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other…

— John Marsden

“Dad always said there were three types of workers. The ones who stood there saying "Is there anything I can do "…

— John Marsden

“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly,…

— John Marsden