Quotes by John Marsden

John Marsden

A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.’ ‘It’s just not right,’ said Kevin stubbornly. ‘Maybe not. But neither’s your way of looking at it. There doesn’t have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong.

People

Suffering

Would Be

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

Peer Pressure

Peers

Pressure

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 been before and noone can every follow. There’s no future there; just a past that sometimes fools you into thinking it’s the future. It’s the most alone place you can ever be and, when you go there, you not only cease to exist in real life, you also cease to exist in their consciousness and in their memories.

Dark

Memories

Real

I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

Attitude

Selfish

War

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 slightest interest. But I’m very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: “Son when your mouth’s open you’re not learning anything.” If that’s true then I’m well on the way to becoming the world’s wisest woman.

Father

Looks

Son

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they’d probably come to less than sixty minutes.

Episodes

Significant

Sixty Minutes

It all began when… they’re funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone it begins when you’re born. Or before that, when your parents got married. Or before that, when your parents were born. Or when your ancestors colonised the place. Or when humans came squishing out of the mud and slime, dropped off their flippers and fins, and started to walk. But all the same, all that aside, for what’s happened to us there was quite a definite beginning

Mean

Parent

Thinking

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 glasses. They’ll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They’ll do everything suffering’s done for us, but without the pain. I’m going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.

Beautiful

Block

Pain

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

Invaders

Stranger

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 a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they’re a curse.

Book

Feelings

Thinking

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Beach

Beautiful

Bigs

Black

Block

Book

Butterfly

Caterpillars

Childhood

Complaining

Cost

Crazy

Cry

Dark

Doe

Dog

Dollars

Dumb

Episodes

Evil

Fall

Fantasy

Father

Feelings

Friendship

Guts

Hands

Happiness

Heart

Hero

Imagination

Innocence

Inspiring Love

Invaders

Kids

Knees

Littles

Looks

Love Is

Mean

Memories

Motivational

Names

News

Night

Over You

Pain

Parent

Past

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Quotes by John Marsden

John Marsden

A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.’ ‘It’s just not right,’ said Kevin stubbornly. ‘Maybe not. But neither’s your way of looking at it. There doesn’t have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they’d probably come to less than sixty minutes.

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

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 a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they’re a curse.

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