John Marsden Quotes

Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.

Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

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 away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

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 imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

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 draw aren't the lines we wanted.