“The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old.” — John Marsden Character 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 Gone Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.” — John Marsden Cynicism Copy Share Image
“I don't want them hanging a double murder on me. It wouldn't look good on my school record.” — John Marsden Murder Copy Share Image
“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 Kindness Copy Share Image
When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge… — John Marsden Anxiety Copy Share Image
“In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.” — John Marsden Kindness 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
My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me,… — John Marsden Heart 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
“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
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 Bigs 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 Bush 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
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 Best way Copy Share Image
“What happened next played itself out like a terrible drama with two spectators. Lee and I stayed on our side of the… — John Marsden Live and die Copy Share Image
“But somehow, standing in the clear night air, under a sky that glowed like a shower of sparks, none of that stuff… — John Marsden Calm Copy Share Image
Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now. — John Marsden Dumb Copy Share Image
The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report. — John Marsden Forget Copy Share Image
Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does. — John Marsden Doe Copy Share Image
“Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow...” — John Marsden Humor 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 Superwoman 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 Blank 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 Episodes 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 Life Copy Share Image
