John Marsden Quotes

• 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.

  John Marsden

  Climbing, Sky, Long

  John Marsden (1999). “A Killing Frost”, Laurel Leaf

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

  John Marsden

  Butterfly, Complaining, Caterpillars

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• Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

  John Marsden

  Thinking, People, Becoming

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.63, Pan Australia

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• La vida es mucho más que ser feliz. Se trata de sentir todo tipo de cosas: felicidad, tristeza, rabia, pena, amor, odio. Si intentas apagar uno de ellos, los apagas todos. No quiero ser feliz. Sé que no viviré feliz para siempre. Quiero más que eso, algo más rico. Quiero acercarme a la belleza y a la fealdad. Quiero verlo todo, saberlo todo, entenderlo todo. La riqueza y la fuerza, la alegría y la crueldad, la dulzura y la tristeza. Es la mejor manera de honrar a mis amigos que murieron.

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  Hate, Grief, Sadness

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• 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.

  John Marsden

  Memories, Powerful, Imagination

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• Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other.

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  Dream, Jobs, Real

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• There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

  John Marsden

  Love Is, Childhood, Innocence

  John Marsden (1998). “Checkers”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.

  John Marsden

  Motivacional, Positivo, Felicidad

  John Marsden (2000). “Burning for Revenge”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tenemos que permanecer juntos, eso es todo lo que sé. A veces nos volvemos locos unos a otros, pero no quiero acabar aquí solo, como el Ermitaño. Entonces esto sería realmente el Infierno. Los humanos se hacen cosas tan terribles que a veces mi cerebro me dice que deben de ser malvados. Pero mi corazón aún no está convencido.
  Sólo espero que podamos sobrevivir.

  John Marsden

  Crazy, Heart, Evil

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  John Marsden

  Oscuro, claro

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

  John Marsden

  Sleep, People, Wake Up

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• Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.

  John Marsden

  Harder, Deeper, Feels

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• Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

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  Thinking, Bored, Alive

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Todo empezó cuando... son graciosas, esas palabras. Todo el mundo las usa, sin pensar lo que significan. ¿Cuándo empieza todo? Para todos empieza cuando naces. O antes de eso, cuando tus padres se casaron. O antes, cuando nacieron tus padres. O cuando tus antepasados colonizaron el lugar. O cuando los humanos salieron aplastados del lodo y el fango, soltaron las aletas y empezaron a caminar. Pero al margen de todo eso, lo que nos ha sucedido ha tenido un comienzo bastante definido...

  John Marsden

  Mean, Thinking, Parent

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

  John Marsden

  Crazy, Risk

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Así era la Naturaleza. El mosquito sintió dolor y pánico, pero la libélula no conocía la crueldad. Los humanos lo llamarían maldad, la gran libélula destruyendo al mosquito e ignorando el sufrimiento del pequeño insecto. Pero los humanos también odiaban a los mosquitos, los llamaban viciosos y sedientos de sangre. Todas estas palabras, como "malvado" y "vicioso", no significaban nada para la Naturaleza. Sí, el mal era una invención humana.

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  Dolor, Maldad, Sufrimiento

  John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

  John Marsden

  People, Different, Stories

  John Marsden (2001). “The Night is for Hunting”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

  John Marsden

  Growing Up, Boys, Thinking

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

  John Marsden

  Hero, People, Stories

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  John Marsden

  Hands, Paper, Lines

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never cry over something that can't cry over you.

  John Marsden

  Over You, Cry

  "South of Darkness". Book by John Marsden, 2014.

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• Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

  John Marsden

  Tiempo empleado

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.165, Pan Australia

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• 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.

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  People, Suffering, Would Be

  John Marsden (1996). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, Laurel Leaf

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• La única prueba verdadera de la amistad es el tiempo que tu amigo te dedica.

  John Marsden

  Friendship, Inspiring Love, Tests

  John Marsden (2010). “Circle of Flight: The Ellie Chronicles 3: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.182, Pan Australia

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• Todas estas palabras, palabras como "mal" y "vicioso", no significaban nada para la Naturaleza. Sí, el mal era una invención humana.

  John Marsden

  Evil, Mosquitoes, Dragonflies

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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