Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old.” — John Marsden Character Copy Share Image
“Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.” — John Marsden Feelings Copy Share Image
Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“Human laws, moral laws, religious laws, they seemed artificial and basic, almost childlike.” — John Marsden Childlike 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
The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like… — 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
“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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your… — John Marsden Cold Copy Share Image
“A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling… — John Marsden Child Copy Share Image
“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 Early morning Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Love Copy Share Image
“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 Life Copy Share Image
“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly,… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“I really believe that our stories make us who we are. I don't think people are born as empty shells. They already… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
It all began when... they're funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone… — John Marsden Ancestor Copy Share Image
“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 Confidence Copy Share Image
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 Brain 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 Copy Share Image
“I remember Robyn saying once ‘Talking about yourself can be selfish or generous’. When I asked what she meant, she said: ‘If… — John Marsden Friendship 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
The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow...” — John Marsden Humor Copy Share Image
“It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.” — John Marsden Funny Copy Share Image
