“Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honour my friends who died.” IfsKnowsWayWantTryingI CanFeelingsJoyHateStuffGriefHellSadnessMy FriendsDiedBest WayCrueltyRangeHonourSweetnessUglinessRichnessLove HateHappily Ever AfterEver AfterWant To Be HappyKnow It AllHappiness Sadness Author:John Marsden
“Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.” ThinkingKnowsSometimesAliveBoredFrightened Book:A Killing Frost Source: A Killing Frost
“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.” KnowsWorldWritingKindDifferentRealDreamInspirationSeemsJobsImaginationExistenceCarActivityTaxesStrikesAlternativesDifferent KindsDesksTangible Author:John Marsden
“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.” IfsKnowsPersonsLongBigsDiesSkyMountainEmptyClimbsClimbingMountaineeringMountain ClimbingBackpacking Book:A Killing Frost Source: A Killing Frost
“Pale as ice you passed me by; I wondered what you really felt, And waited through the changing times, To see if you would one day melt. I thought that ice would melt with warmth, But there were thing I did not know: The sun can touch the outer layers But does not reach the deepest snow. Winter sometimes seems like years, Summer's sometimes far away, But winter always turns to summer, As surely as does night to day.” IfsKnowsYearsDoeSometimesSeemsNightTurnsFeltSunOne DaySummerWinterSnowIceWarmthLayersFar AwayPaleWinter Snow Author:John Marsden
“Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.” KnowsWellsThreeNamesBlackTypeGreenOlives Book:Tomorrow, When the War Began Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began
“We’ve got to stick together, that’s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I don’t want to end up here alone, like the Hermit. Then this really would be Hell. Humans do such terrible things to each other that sometimes my brain tells me they must be evil. But my heart still isn’t convinced. I just hope we can survive.” KnowsWantHumansHeartStillsEndsSometimesWould BeTogetherEvilBrainHellCrazyMy HeartTerribleSticksConvincedTerrible ThingsHermits Book:Tomorrow, When the War Began Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began
