Explore Quotes by John Marsden

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

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

When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.

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

Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.

Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.

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

the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.

People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.