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John Marsden Quote: “I refuse to think fear. I will think strong. I will think brave.”

51. “I refuse to think fear. I will think strong. I will think brave.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they’re like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they’re a curse.”

53. “Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they’re like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they’re a curse.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.”

54. “Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.”

55. “Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they’d probably come to less than sixty minutes.”

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

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “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 pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.”

57. “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 pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall.”

58. “Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “The dreams now were simply of staying alive.”

59. “The dreams now were simply of staying alive.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.”

60. “Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “How funny are dogs?”

61. “How funny are dogs?”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “It’d be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.”

62. “It’d be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.”

63. “The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “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 complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said ‘Mature’ on one side and ‘Childish’ on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.”

64. “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 complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said ‘Mature’ on one side and ‘Childish’ on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “Then the day came when we stopped playing. We’d gone a couple of months without our usual games, but a few days into the school holidays I got my dolls out and tried to start up again. And it had all gone. The magic didn’t work any more. I could barely even remember how we’d done it, but I tried to recapture the mood, the storylines, the way the dolls had moved and thought and spoken. But now it was like reading a meaningless book.”

65. “Then the day came when we stopped playing. We’d gone a couple of months without our usual games, but a few days into the school holidays I got my dolls out and tried to start up again. And it had all gone. The magic didn’t work any more. I could barely even remember how we’d done it, but I tried to recapture the mood, the storylines, the way the dolls had moved and thought and spoken. But now it was like reading a meaningless book.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “No, Hell wasn’t anything to do with places, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.”

66. “No, Hell wasn’t anything to do with places, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “I began to think the damage to our country, to us even, went so deep now that it would never fully be repaired. I realised the worst damage wasn’t the bombed buildings, the burnt-out cars, the shattered windows. It wasn’t even the neglected farms and the holes in the fences and the crops gone to seed. It was the damage deep inside us. Words like spirit and soul started to mean more to me now.”

67. “I began to think the damage to our country, to us even, went so deep now that it would never fully be repaired. I realised the worst damage wasn’t the bombed buildings, the burnt-out cars, the shattered windows. It wasn’t even the neglected farms and the holes in the fences and the crops gone to seed. It was the damage deep inside us. Words like spirit and soul started to mean more to me now.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “So I’ve started writing again. It passes the time. No, I’ll be honest, it does more than that. It gets stuff out of my head and heart and puts it on paper. That doesn’t mean it’s no longer in my head and heart. It’s still there. But once I’ve written about it, seems like there’s more room inside me again. More room for other things.”

68. “So I’ve started writing again. It passes the time. No, I’ll be honest, it does more than that. It gets stuff out of my head and heart and puts it on paper. That doesn’t mean it’s no longer in my head and heart. It’s still there. But once I’ve written about it, seems like there’s more room inside me again. More room for other things.”

— John Marsden

John Marsden Quote: “Like I said, they can be pretty crazy, horses. Not as sensible as sheep.”

69. “Like I said, they can be pretty crazy, horses. Not as sensible as sheep.”

— John Marsden

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