All John Marsden Quotes
- 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. Childhood
- We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always… Accordingly
- Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind… Activity
- Never cry over anything that can't cry over you Cry
- What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we… Blank
- I feel like I'm dropping such a long way down again." "I seem to be dropping into a cold dark wet place, where no one's… Alone
- My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My… From
- The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. Friend
- Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like… All
- I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long… All
- My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my… Feelings
- So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories.… Been
- 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 design myself special… Beautiful
- Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison Fortress
- 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 can’t live for… Cheap
- At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up. Age
- This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him.… Adore
- I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them or show the… Aware
- Pale as ice you passed me by; I wondered what you really felt, And waited through the changing times, To see if you would one… Always Turns
- If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes. Added
- Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted. Funny
- 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. Changing
- 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. Becoming
- We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy. Believed
- Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming. Becoming