John Marsden Quotes

“I felt that my life was permanently damaged, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a shell.”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“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.”
― John Marsden