Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall.” — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“They weren't necessarily soldiers, but you didn't have to be soldiers to be affected by it all.” — John Marsden Soldiers Copy Share Image
If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
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… — John Marsden Changing mind Copy Share Image
“Homer was so used to being told off in his life that you might as well have told a rock off for… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow… — John Marsden Age Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.” — John Marsden Flower Copy Share Image
“We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.” — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“If people are either mountain people or ocean people then I'm a mountain person. I love the ocean, the few times I… — John Marsden Ocean Copy Share Image
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them?… — John Marsden Book Copy Share Image
“Action is its own kind of thinking. We had to fight now: these people were a cancer who had crept into our… — John Marsden Action Copy Share Image
We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Well, I’ve learnt this much: it doesn’t matter what it costs, it’s worth paying the price. You can’t live cheap and you… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“When it's all said and done, the only thing that matter in life are so damn simple. Family, friends. being safe and… — John Marsden Family friends Copy Share Image
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was… — John Marsden Feelings Copy Share Image
They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“It was the world-without-adults daydream. In my dream I'd never quite figured out where the adults went but we kids were free… — John Marsden Childhood Copy Share Image
People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm.… — John Marsden Another world Copy Share Image
“You can never stay angry too long in the bush though. At least, that's what I think. It's not that it's soothing… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Pale as ice you passed me by; I wondered what you really felt, And waited through the changing times, To see if… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“Life’s about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It’s about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger,… — John Marsden Happiness Copy Share Image
“Mr. Lindell's English classes are meant to make you think I guess about yourself and people and everything. Some of the kids… — John Marsden English class Copy Share Image
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up… — John Marsden Beer Copy Share Image
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the… — John Marsden Attitude Copy Share Image
“You're the most important person in my life," I said. He didn't say anything. "You're my brother," I said. He didn't say… — John Marsden Brother Copy Share Image
“I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for… — John Marsden Human spirit Copy Share Image
A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe… — John Marsden Death Copy Share Image
I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“I remembered Robyn telling me the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and how they'd survived: when the King chucked them in… — John Marsden Angel Copy Share Image
I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“There's nothing lonelier than grief. Sometimes I wanted to cry out to them all in the middle of History "Please please look… — John Marsden Grief Copy Share Image
“"And suddenly they came out of the woodwork. I don't actually know what that expression means. What come out of the wood… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“The only real enemy humans have is death. Every other enemy like a kid who slags you off at school or a… — John Marsden Death Copy Share Image
It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll… — John Marsden Beautiful Copy Share Image
