104 Quotes by John Marsden

"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."

"Night started to fall, then it fell, till it was lying all over the ground."

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

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

"It’s good to keep changing your mind. It shows you’re thinking. I’ll only stop changing my mind when I’m dead. And maybe not even then."

"I’ve heard enough about what you want to do; now tell me what needs doing."

"Blame it on Peer Pressure."

"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."

"The biggest risk, is to take no risks."

"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."